The wife of a Japanese diplomat who helped thousands of Jews flee the Nazis sued a Tokyo publisher over a book she claims libels her dead husband. Yukiko Sugihara asked a Tokyo court to stop the sale of the book about her late husband, Chiune, and asked for some $86,000 in damages.
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