Lieutenant Colonel Norihide Yasue Business Card This is a business card from Lieutenant Colonel Norihide Yasue, an expert on Jewish affairs in the Imperial Japanese Army, who later served as a Colonel. This extremely valuable item, dating back about 100 years, belonged to a key figure who devised the Fugu Plan and saved many Jewish people. You are welcome to purchase without any comments. Thank you. Norihide Yasue (January 12, 1888 - August 14, 1950) was a military officer in the Imperial Japanese Army. He graduated from the Army War College, Class 21. His final rank was Colonel. He is known as an expert on Jewish affairs in the Imperial Japanese Army. In February 1935, after discussions with Dr. Kaufman, chairman of the Far Eastern Jewish Conference, and other executives in Harbin, he founded the "World Ethnic Culture Association" as a friendship organization between the Japanese and Jewish peoples, with Dr. Kenzo Isobe as an advisor and Yasue himself as chairman. Yasue worked to protect Jews in Manchuria and also assisted Muslims and White Russians. Even Abraham Kotsuji, a Jewish scholar who disliked Yasue due to his translation of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," admitted in his memoir "From Tokyo to Jerusalem" (1975), "The Dalian Special Service Agency was led by Colonel Yasue. The Jews who were familiar with the Manchurian business felt indebted to Yasue, and it is absolutely true that Yasue helped the Jews in many ways." Michael Kogan, a Russian Jew who lived in Manchuria before the war, founded the game software and equipment company "Taito" in Japan after the war. Kogan, who felt deeply indebted to Yasue for his efforts to protect Jews during his time in Manchuria, was concerned that no funeral had been held for Yasue after his death in a prisoner-of-war camp in Khabarovsk, and in 1954, he offered, "The Jewish Association in Japan will cover all expenses, so please do as you wish." Appears in the manga: "Rainbow-Colored Trotsky" (Yoshikazu Yasuhiko) "Kijima Diary" (Original work by Eiji Otsuka, art by Mika Mori) Emperor Showa MacArthur Hideki Tojo Kanji Ishiwara Heihachiro Togo Chiune Sugihara World War II Greater East Asia War Pacific War US Army Fugu Plan Jews Holocaust Manchuria Trump Hitler Putin