Talk:Chiune Sugihara

message: Article says "His father and family moved into the tax office within the branch of the Nagoya Tax Administration Office one after another."  One after another what?  Looks like it means the family moved from tax office to tax office, but I'm not sure and I don't know whether each one was somehow "better" than the previous one, or what.  Can someone who knows about this clarify? Mcswell (talk) 21:54, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early Life 

message: The ministry of Foregin Affairs was replaced in 1940.
I find the statement "The Japanese Foreign Ministry, still needing Chiune's language and organizational skills, decided to postpone disciplinary action until his skills were no longer needed" speculative. It doesn't also precise, which of the ministries is being mentioned where in the text.
* Please sign your posts with "~~~~" after the message. If you find it speculative, correct it. Citing your sources also helps - Skysmith 14:56, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ministry 

message: You aren't quoting "The Sun" but an academic work. 
Xx236 13:14, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  According to ..., Sugihara would have cooperated  

message: From all the materials I read about this affair I haven't found any evidence that either Sugihara or the Jews he helped were aware of an imminent German attack on the Soviet Union. The intention, I think, of those Jewish refugees from Poland applying for transit visas was to leave the Soviet Union. The fact that the number of those seeking visas reached its peak in the months immediately following Lithuanian ascension to the USSR, to support my suspicion. Indeed, if Jews thought Germany would soon overrun border areas they could have move to interior regions of the Soviet Union. Sugihara, though as a diplomat working for the Japanese intelligence, he certainly was in a better position to learn about the underlying political developments, but in August 1940 Hitler had yet to make any definite plans to invade the USSR, so even he was unlikely to know anything. In light of this, I suggest that all references to him saving Jews are removed from the article.
71.222.26.122 00:41, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You are correct on both points. As for the preceeding remark, following Lithuanian ascension to the USSR, I never heard that one before (even in Salomeja Neris' poems), concerning the events in Lithuania in June-August 1940. Dr. Dan (talk) 21:21, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sugihara saving Jews 

message: In the last revision I edited, I found duplicate named references, i.e. references sharing the same name, but not having the same content. Please check them, as I am not able to fix them automatically :) 
* "s285" :
** Levine, p. 285.
** [see above]
DumZiBoT (talk) 07:32, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bot report : Found duplicate references ! 

message: The first paragraph is confusing. It reads:
::Soon after the occupation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union, he helped several thousand Jews leave the country by issuing transit visas to Jewish refugees so that they could travel to Japan. Most of the Jews who escaped were refugees from Poland or residents of Lithuania. Because of his actions in saving Jews from the Nazis, Sugihara was honored by Israel as Righteous Among the Nations.
This blurs the distinction between helping Jews escape Stalinist rule and saving them from the Nazis. Of course, with hindsight one can say that Sughihara's actions had the unforeseen effect of saving
their lives, but it would useful if there were some explanation in the article of what they were fleeing from in 1940. Norvo (talk) 00:24, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing 

message: "Records pertaining to General Onodera Makoto, head of Japanese Military Intelligence in Europe. They identify Sugahara Chiune, Japanese official in Lithuania who became known for issuing visas to Jewish refugees, as one of Onodera's espionage agents.cf http://www.archives.gov/iwg/reports/japanese-interim-report-march-2002-1.html ???Trente7cinq (talk) 09:42, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  A spy also ? 

message: Does anyone know what happened to this? See  and . Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 13:00, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Raised at WP:RSN#Is Hillel Levine's biography of Chiune Sugihara. Dougweller (talk) 12:42, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hillel lawsuit 

message: :See WP:RS. It is a reliable source by our standards, but if you have reliable sources that contradict it you can add it. I see some of his family supported Hillel - have you read http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,404316,00.html and http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=3007045 - and do you know what happened to the lawsuit? This should really be discussed on the article's talk page. Dougweller (talk) 13:01, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Then use them. What happened to the lawsuit? If you think a source doesn't meet our WP:RS guidelines you can go to WP:RSN, and the sources above should be added to the article talk page for others to see. Dougweller (talk) 21:36, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Please, please use the talk page. I did not write the above, I don't think I've written any of the article, are you posting on my talk page because you think I wrote it? Dougweller (talk) 21:39, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  REQUEST 

message: does the fact that sugihara used the pseudonym "sempo" really belong in the first paragraph?  the first paragraph should be a general overview of the contents of the article- this seems to be a relatively minor detail.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.114.105.254 (talk) 10:10, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: From what I can tell a few older sources list his name only as Sempo Sugihara, so it makes sense to explain the discrepancy in the opening. --EminentCluster (talk) 01:13, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  pseudonym 

message: From the article:
: Sugihara's widow and eldest son estimate that he saved 10,000 Jews from certain death, whereas Boston University professor and author, Hillel Levine, thinks it was far higher at around 10,000.
I'm fairly sure that 10,000=10,000. So what is this paragraph supposed to say? 85.220.22.139 (talk) 20:30, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I was wondering the same thing. Rammer (talk) 02:32, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: A slight confusion of numbers

message: I don't know if there is any general Wikipedia policy on this, but it would be nice to give locations for the several Sugihara memorials, especially since Google doesn't seem to know about the Los Angeles Little Tokyo statue.
If anyone wants to act on this, that memorial is at approximately 184 South Central Avenue, or +34.0479 -118.2392  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wolfamade (talk • contribs) 02:09, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  It would be nice to give locations of the several memorials 

message: Polish underground issued many visas literally copying Japanese ones. Many Poles who produced false visas were murdered by the Nazis (or Soviets), Sugihara did quite well.Xx236 (talk) 07:05, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sugihara and Poles 

message: This term is clearly incorrect. I would fix it, but I'm not sure what is meant. 216.8.154.6 (talk) 17:38, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Manchurian Foreign Office" 

message: I see nothing here on the talk page. --Wikipedia Wonderful 698-D (talk) 04:19, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It was a drive-by tagging. And IMO, it should be treated the same as real life drive-by tags, removed by painting over them. I usually give these things a week, if nobody can defend the reason for the tag, delete it. Dave (talk) 03:04, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: OK. I will remove it then, as it has been up since February. --Wikipedia Wonderful 698-D (talk) 04:18, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's with the neutrality dispute thing? 

message: The article includes this random tangent "That same year, 45 years after the Soviet invasion of Lithuania," with no further explanation. What is the relevance of the 45 years after the invasion of Lithuania to this article? Dave (talk) 03:04, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Lithuania

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message: A lot is written about Sugihara from the survivor Marcel Weyland in his book "The boy on the tricycle"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.177.2.232 (talk) 06:35, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  A book by Marcel Weyland 

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