Israel and Japan on Monday posthumously honored Tatsuo Osako , a Japanese travel agent who helped save Jews fleeing from Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. Follow Ynetnews on Facebook and Twitter Osako worked as a travel agent in the Japanese coastal city of Tsuruga between 1940 and 1941 when thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing German-occupied Europe through the Soviet Union's Vladivostok arrived at the Japanese port by ship. 4 View gallery Tatsuo Osako (left) in his youth ( Photo: Courtesy of the family ) Despite the Japanese Empire being allied with Nazi Germany, Osako welcomed the refugees upon their...