hugsI believe there is a special someone for everyone <| sep |> Brazil only has around 5 thousand municipalities . Edit I thought France had some big uninhabited areas . <| sep |> I ' m not going to fall into your idiotic ' us vs them ' mentality . That ' s funny , because you did exactly that in your previous comments , it ' s exactly the reason why you deserve the shitty result . You ' re an idiot with 0 empathyYou don ' t have a clue about me and I most certainly empathize with people who didn ' t vote for either of those two horrible people . I honestly have become significantly less intelligent even responding to you . Perhaps , but not for the reason you believe . <| sep |> A couple of points for you He actually wrote the visas against the authority of his government which if you can imagine imperial Japan think about samurai stereotypes and bushido code and what that all meant about attitudes towards authority was professional and personal suicide . The poor man lived in poverty the rest of his life because of his objections . In the long run , we find his actions righteous , but I can ' t imagine the courage it would take to disobey such a government . Even though some stories surround his motivation , it is still some what of an enigma as to why he did it . He ran a consulate in Lithuania , where there were unlikely to be Japanese people at all . At the beginning of WWII , Lithuania was an independent state and by the end it would be a part of the USSR . This leads some to believe that he was a spy for the Japanese government trying to gather intelligence on the Russians . In the end , he had to leave Lithuania , because he was kicked out by the Russians . Subsequently , he briefly lived in a few different European cities where he issued a smaller number of visas . However most of the visas he issued were in Kaunas , Lithuania . Also remember that the USSR was not exactly fond of Jews . There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the visas and the recipients . The justification for the transit visas was that the Jews were moving through Russia then Japan to Curaao , a Dutch principality in the Caribbean . In the end many of them made it to Japan and were stopped , living in camps in China until the end of the war . It is unknown as to the actual number of people who were able to leave Lithuania because of a Sugihara visa . The 6 , 000 figure is a best estimate . There ' s so much more to talk about regarding Sugihara , but I ' ll leave it here . He ' s definitely an honorable man and an interesting character . Glad to see someone mention him here .