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Documents, photos and other hisctorical artifacts are on display in the rooms of the 1939 - 1940 Japanese Consulate, the Sugihara House in Kaunas, Lithuania on January 10, 2018. More than 77 years ago, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara saved about 6,000 European Jews from the Holocaust by issuing visas that allowed them to escape war-torn Lithuania. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will pay tribute to the rare hero of Japan's World War II past on on January 14, 2018 when he visits the two-storey building that housed the consulate where Sugihara worked in the Baltic state's second city Kaunas. / AFP PHOTO / Petras MALUKAS / TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Vaidotas BENIUSIS (Photo credit should read PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP via Getty Images)