“Visas for Life”
Japan and Jewish Community in Denmark

    On 13th October, at the Danish Jewish Community Det Jødiske Samfund, the Embassy of Japan, the Jewish Culture Festival and the Danish Jewish Community in Denmark jointly hosted a “Japan Evening”. In the event, Mr. Akira Kitade, Japanese freelance writer, held a lecture titled "My Twenty Years of Searching for 'Visas for Life'", which is about the later lives of the Jewish people who escaped to Japan with the visas issued by Mr. Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat in Kaunas, Lithuania during the Second World War and the Japanese and foreign diplomats who helped Jewish people with Mr. Sugihara. In the event, the Ikebana demonstration(a Japanese traditional flower arrangement) by Ms. Inger Tribler, President of Ikebana International Copenhagen Chapter and Ms. Vivi Woetmann 1st Vice-President of Ikebana International Copenhagen Chapter and Japanese sake(Japanese rice wine) demonstration by Ms. Nao Adachi Mathiesen, an International Kikisake-shi were held.
    The event was held in the strict accordance with the Danish authority’s relevant hygiene guidelines and taking thorough measures against the infection. Thank you for your cooperation.