A Japanese delegation visits the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum-Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum

On July 3, 2018, leading by mayor and the speaker of city council of Tsuruga city, a Japanese delegation of 6 people visited the Shanghai Jewish Refugees museum.

Between June and August 1940, Chiune Sugihara, the Vice-consul of Japan in Lithuania, issued more than 1,000 transit visas to Polish and Lithuanian Jews, eager to leave Europe. Most of them arrived in Japan by boat from Vladivostok; Tsuruga is the Japanese port of their entry. The city established the humanitarian port museum in 2008 to commemorate and display this history. In this April, Poland ' s ambassador to Japan sent a copy of a general catalog of Polish refugees who had taken refuge in Shanghai during World War II to Tsuruga city.

During the visit, Mr. Nishikawa, who is in charge of the museum in Tsuruga city, said that Tsuruga is ready to rebuild their museum in the next three years and hopes to maintain communication with the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum.