Document shows role of another Japan envoy in helping Jews flee Nazis

A photocopy of a transit visa issued by the then Japanese envoy to the Soviet Union to help a Jewish refugee flee from Nazi Germany during World War II has been preserved in the hands of her relatives, the family said.While it is already known that Ambassador Yoshitsugu Tatekawa issued travel documents for Jewish refugees, it is very rare to confirm that he also issued visas for them.The visa was issued for 17-year-old Rischel Kotler on March 8, 1941 at the Japanese Embassy in Moscow.Since the Japanese Foreign Ministry had banned visa issuance in the Soviet Union a day earlier, Tatekawa, wh…READ FULL ARTICLE