ISRAEL-ASIA/ABE-YAD VASHEM Japanese PM lays wreath at Yad Vashem Holocaust museum

Record ID: 401131

  • Title: ISRAEL-ASIA/ABE-YAD VASHEM Japanese PM lays wreath at Yad Vashem Holocaust museum
  • Date: 19th January 2015
  • Summary: ****WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** ABE LIGHTING TORCH JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER AND HIS WIFE AT CEREMONY ABE LYING WREATH DURING HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CEREMONY ABE WALKING TOWARDS MEDIA ABE SPEAKING TO THE MEDIA ABE SIGNING GUEST BOOK VIEW OF JAPANESE DELEGATION, REPORTERS AT NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER SHINZO ABE SAYING: "Today, I hav
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  • Location: Jerusalem
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  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: General
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  • Story Text: PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS VIDEO WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY 4:3
    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe laid a wreath at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on Monday (January 19) during his three-day visit to the region.
    Abe lit a torch during the memorial ceremony and signed the guest book where he vowed in Hebrew that the Holocaust would never repeat itself.
    "Today, I have learnt how much merciless humans can be by singling out a group of people and making it an object of discrimination and hatred," he said.
    Abe mentioned the Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat during World War Two who was credited for saving thousands of Jews by signing transit visas for them to escape the Nazis.
    "Among our four fathers, was Chiune Sugihara and a good number of Japanese citizens also extended hope to the Jewish refugees as they headed for Japan with Sugihara's visas. There is, is a courage we would like to follow," Abe said.
    Abe met his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, upon his arrival on Sunday (January 18) where they held a joint news conference and addressed mutual interests and economic and bilateral ties.
    Abe is scheduled to meet more Israeli leaders during his visit in Jerusalem before travelling to the West Bank to meet the Palestinian leadership.
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