Japan mayor calls for closer ties with Jewish communities in U.S.

A Japanese mayor called for closer ties between the country and Jewish communities in the United States during a recent friendship event, reflecting on his city's history of helping displaced wartime people who fled the Nazis."Tsuruga is the town which warmly greeted displaced Jewish people," said Takanobu Fuchikami, mayor of the central city on the Sea of Japan coast, at the gathering on Wednesday in New York.Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, was known as the only city in Japan at which many Jewish refugees arrived by boat from Vladivostok after receiving transit visas in Lithuania from storied J…READ FULL ARTICLE