A short documentary showing how thousands of Jewish refugees were saved through Japanese transit visas and gained their freedom with the help of JTB.

Kiichirō Higuchi was a major general and the commander of the Harbin Special Branch in 1938, he allowed Jewish refugees who had fled Nazi Germany to cross the border from the Soviet Union to Manchukuo. A few of his subordinates were responsible for feeding the refugees, settling them in Harbin or Shanghai, or arranging for exit visas. [Source]

Chiune Sugihara saved 6000 Jews. He was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote them 18 hrs a day. The day his consulate closed and he had to evacuate, witnesses claim he was STILL writing visas and throwing from the train as he pulled away. He saved 6000 lives. The world didn’t know what he’d done until Israel honored him in 1985, the year before he died. [Source]