| 1900 |
Born on 1 January in Yaotsu-cho, Gifu Prefecture. Earliest years spent there. Father changes jobs thereafter, resulting in his living in Mie Prefecture and Nagoya City. |
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| 1917 |
Graduates from the Fifth Junior High School in Aichi Prefecture. Father wants him to become a physician so he sits for the entrance exam for Keijo Medical University and fails it by turning in a blank answer sheet. |
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| 1918 |
Enters Waseda University, but drops out in 1919 to study in Harbin under a scholarship from the Japanese Foreign Ministry. |
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| 1920 |
Joins the 12th Company of the 79th Regiment Infantry for Youngsan, Korea as a one-year volunteer. |
German Worker's Party renamed the Nazi Party in 1920. |
| 1924 |
Assigned to Manzhouli in February as an embassy clerk. Reassigned to Harbin in December. |
1933, Hitler establishes his government
1934, Hitler becomes chancellor.
1935, Japan, occupied Manchuria, and the Soviet Union, enter into a tripartite agreement. Germany announces Nuremberg Laws and eliminates Jewish people’s citizenship.
1936, Japan and Germany sign a defense pact. |
| 1932 |
Becomes a government correspondent secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Manchukuo. |
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| 1933 |
Begins negotiations with Soviet Union regarding transfer of the North Manchuria |
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| 1937 |
Assigned to serve in the Soviet Union, but refused entry. Sent to work at Helsinki legation in Finland instead. |
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| 1938 |
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1938, Germany annexes Austria. Germany divides Czechoslovakia and the Sudetenland region.
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| 1939 |
Ordered to open the Consulate in the capital city of Kaunas in Lithuania. |
Germany divides Czechoslovakia and occupies it. German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact concluded. German Army invades Poland. World War II begins. Polish te rritory is divided between Germany and the Soviet Union .
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| 1940 |
7 July, begins issuing transit visas for Jewish refugees to Japan. Issues transit visas to Japan for 2,139 families.
Kaunas Consulate closed down on 29 August .
Departs from Kaunas station on the international train for Berlin on 5 September.
Begins assignment at Consulate General in Prague, Czechoslovakia. |
1940. Soviet Union invades the Baltic States. Soviet Union merges Lithuania.
Tripartite Pact between Japan, Germany and Italy signed.
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| 1941 |
Ordered to serve at the Consulate General in Konigsberg, Germany on February 28. Reassigned to the legation in Bucharest, Romania in November. |
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| 1942 |
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1942. Germany makes a big 'Final Decision' (large scale massacre) to murder the Jewish people. Starts the Nazi Holocaust in the Getto Warszawskie
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| 1945 |
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Nazis send Jewish people to a prison camp in the suburbs of Bucharest. |
| 1947 |
Returns to Japan (Hakata, Kyushu region) in April. |
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| 1960 |
Sent to Moscow as an office manager for a trading company.
Changes jobs twice after arrival and remains in Moscow. |
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| 1968 |
Reunited with Mr. Nishri, whom he'd issued a visa to, for the first time in 28 years. |
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| 1969 |
Receives a medal from Warhaftig, the Minister of Religion in Israel, who was also helped by Sugihara when he was a refugee. |
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| 1985 |
Receives the “Righteous among the nations (Yad Vashem award)” from the government of Israel.
He is the first Japanese to be given the Award. |
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| 1986 |
Dies in Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture. |
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