When we arrived at a small town called kamakura I was a little fed up with visiting villages and sweet tea houses. But when I tasted the plum sake I realized there was much more to this town that I needed to know about.

And one of the things was Chiune Sugihara who was buried here, in his home town. Appointed as a vice-counsel in Lithuania in 1939, he managed to sign visas for over 5558 Jews, saving them from certain death. It was amazing to see a normal out-of-the-way village as the source of such heroism.

I was a little overwhelmed by the heat and my overeating to really enjoy the pleasures of this town as much as I would have liked, but I was really impressed by his simple humanity. His statement

But I would really like to pay respects to Sugihara and want to see if I can convince my group to go there