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There's a statue of him in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo which I used to pay respects to when I visited for the New Year's festival. As I became an EA I would aspire to match or exceed his impact.
Sugihara continued to hand-write visas, reportedly spending 18 to 20 hours a day on them, producing a normal month's worth of visas each day, until September 4, 1940, when he had to leave his post before the consulate was closed. Sugihara reportedly worked at a quick pace and aimed to issue 200 to 300 visas each day. [...]
According to witnesses, he was still writing ...
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always had you as von stauffenberg in my head :)