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1989-1990 - Chiune Sugihara receives the posthumous Courage Award and Raoul Wallenberg Award.

1990 - Yukiko Sugihara writes an autobiographical book “Visas for Six Thousand Lives”.

1991-1993 - The Mir Yeshiva School in Brooklyn establishes a Sugihara Scholarship. The street in Vilnius is named after Chiune Sugihara. In Yaotsu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan, a memorial and museum are built. Sugihara is awarded the Nagasaki Peace Award.

1997 - Jan Zwartendijk is given the title of Righteous Among the Nations, the Yad Vashem Award.

2001 - On October 2, two hundred Japanese sakuras - a gift from Japan to Lithuania - are planted by the White Bridge in Vilnius. Seven sakuras bloom every spring in Kaunas, in front of the former consulate.

2003 - In April, a park of hundred sakuras was planted on Nemunas Island in Kaunas.

2008 - Yukiko Sugihara, who also published a book of poems “White Nights and other”, left us on October 8.

2012 - Jan Zwartendijk receives the posthumous Life Saving Cross from the President of Lithuania.

2020 - An illuminated monument to Jan Zwartendijk was erected in Eindhoven - the birth town of Philips.

Chiune Sugihara house-museum is situated in the former Japanese Consulate, Vaižganto str. 30, Kaunas, Lithuania. It is visited by about 7,000 Japanese tourists every year.

A number of countries have issued special stamps in honor of Chiune Sugihara. The Russian Orthodox Church declared him a saint, so you can find painted icons of the “St Sugihara”.