(JTA) When Kinori Sugihara Rosnow helped his Japanese national team clinch sixth place in the World Lacrosse Championship in 2018 by winning a crucial face-off, the game meant more to him than just a ...
(JTA) — Japan’s far-right Sanseito party emerged triumphant in the country’s latest parliamentary election this week, signaling the rise of a nationalist, anti-immigrant movement with a history of ...
This article was sent as a newsletter. Sign up for our weekly Jewish sports newsletter here. Hello! While this year’s Jewish High Holidays are still a couple weeks away, Thursday marked the 90th ...
Nobuki Sugihara was 19 years old when, in the summer of 1968, an unexpected call came in from the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo. A diplomat was searching for his father, Chiune Sugihara, who was visiting ...
Karl Yoneda and Elaine Buchman, March 1933. The couple would later be incarcerated with their son at the Manzanar concentration camp during World War II. (The Karl G. Yoneda Papers, UCLA Special ...
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam on Sunday to highlight Japan's friendship with the Jewish people and sees no contradiction ...
WAAKIRCHEN, Germany — Eighty years ago, Abba Naor was among several thousand Jews and other prisoners evacuated from Nazi concentration camps and forced to walk for days on the notorious Dachau death ...
Commentator Toru Tamagawa, appearing on Friday’s broadcast of TV Asahi’s Hatori Shinichi Morning Show, questioned whether the special envoy’s Jewish background should have disqualified him. Rabbi ...