Kokichi Sugihara specializes in the impossible. He creates mind-bending physical objects that look and behave in incredible ways when seen from the right angle, such as marbles that roll uphill or ...

Were it not for Yukiko Sugihara, who died on October 8 at age 94, I might not be writing this column, nor would there be some 55,000 descendants of the Jews her husband helped save from the Holocaust.

Born January 1, 1900, in rural Japan, Chiune Sugihara lived during a period of extraordinary change in his home country. He was a diplomat by profession, and his memory has endured primarily thanks to ...

NARRATOR: During the summer of 1940 Sugihara was preparing to close his consulate and report to the Japanese embassy in Berlin for reassignment. He believed his work in Kaunas was over ... until the ...

Bushido, which means "way of the warrior," refers to a complex set of Japanese values stressing honor and loyalty to country and family above all else. These values began to develop very informally as ...

The only thing Linda Royal's father ever said about the man who saved her family was that he had "kind eyes". That man was Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who was sent to Lithuania in 1939, where ...

Dr. Carol Gluck is currently the George Sansom professor of history at Columbia University, specializing in modern Japan from the late 19th century onward. She is author of a number of books about ...

Bushido, which means "way of the warrior," refers to a complex set of Japanese values stressing honor and loyalty to country and family above all else. These values began to develop very informally as ...