Most significant positive evidence
The evidence concerns decisive use of diplomatic authority to create escape routes for people facing persecution and likely death.
Person
Chiune Sugihara
The assessment covers the issuing of transit visas to Jewish refugees in Lithuania despite institutional obstacles and the foreseeable personal and professional risks of doing so.
This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.
Ethical assessment categories
Current published result
Overall ethical score
+98.18
Reasoned summary
Sugihara used limited official power with exceptional moral courage when bureaucratic obedience would have abandoned refugees. His assessed conduct is exceptionally positive.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
Most significant negative evidence
No substantiated grave ethical misconduct was identified in the assessed rescue work. Exact beneficiary numbers and the degree of formal disobedience are described differently across accounts.
Read the full Chiune Sugihara ethical assessment, evidence and sources
Six-dimensional ethical profile
The overall figure is the equal-weight average of the applicable dimensions. It does not replace the separate scores, evidence or uncertainty.
- Personal moral conduct
- +99.00
- Rights and dignity
- +97.51
- Nonviolence and harm
- +99.00
- Stewardship of power
- +98.00
- Wisdom and truthfulness
- +97.07
- Consequential legacy
- +98.49
- Severe-harm record
- No separate finding recorded
Assessment history
Ethical assessment: Chiune Sugihara (1940)
1940 · Published assessment · reviewed June 26, 2026
Result: Six-dimensional ethical profile