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On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

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WrandmWaffles said:
Her parents had escaped the war because Sugihara-san had helped them, so when they heard of his death they had been determined to pay their respects. As had many others.
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So assuming the war mentioned here is WW2, Sugihara-san must be Chiune Sugihara right? His good deeds went unreported in Japan until after his death, so it makes sense that Shigeru didn't know about it.

WrandmWaffles said:
It turned out that Sugihara-san had traveled quite a lot, and sometimes told him stories about the places he had been to, like the Soviet Union, which sounded like a dangerous but interesting country.
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This is his time as a trade representative in the Soviet Union.

WrandmWaffles said:
Leading up to the funeral, the Suzukis and their neighbors found, to their confusion, groups of foreigners suddenly appearing in greater and greater numbers, filling up the local inns and hotels. Apparently one of them was quite important too, since there were also a few national news crews hanging around.
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And this is the visitation of the many Sugihara visa refugees and the Israeli Ambassador.

Plus he did in fact live in Fujisawa and died in 1986, so both the location and time fit. I gotta wonder though, did the decision to pick Fujisawa as Shirogane's hometown come about because of fitting Sugihara into the family's backstory as a plausible way for Polish blood to end up in Japan in the 1980s?

Man, either way, you really did a lot of research for this story. It makes rereads feel really rewarding, that small details just line up. I completely glossed over this fact in the beginning and assumed Sugihara was just some old guy, kinda like Shigeru did.
 
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TheSmallSauce said:
Plus he did in fact live in Fujisawa and died in 1986, so both the location and time fit. I gotta wonder though, did the decision to pick Fujisawa as Shirogane's hometown come about because of fitting Sugihara into the family's backstory as a plausible way for Polish blood to end up in Japan in the 1980s?
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Yes this is literally why I picked Fujisawa, because I spent a somewhat funny amount of time coming up with a reason for a Polish woman to end up in Japan that wasn't just 'it happens'.
 
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