!["Web of Communications" chart, July 1940 [LCID: 2002xiiy]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/1b31dc9c-efd5-47ec-82fd-7cdb9e07d4a7.jpg)
Diagram showing "the web of communications" between Japanese diplomats and members of the Polish resistance in the Baltic states and Scandinavia. The "Konsulat japonski Kowno" refers to Sugihara. Despite its ties with Nazi Germany, Japan pursued its own course in foreign policy. After the Germans occupied Poland and the Netherlands, Japan continued relations with both the Polish and Dutch governments-in-exile in London. July 1940.
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