“Saturday Shift”: The Japanese captain who saved hundreds of Greeks and Armenians in 1922 | 19 Oct. 2024, 08:00
In September 1922, the captain of the Japanese merchant ship "Tokei Maru" saved the lives of 825 people—women, children, and men, Greeks and Armenians—from the wrath of the Turks as Smyrna burned. Unable to bear the magnitude of the tragedy, the captain stood against the Turks, who were demanding tha...