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Cornell University This paper is a comparison of two museums dedicated to the Japanese diplomat toLithuania during World War II, Sugihara Chiune. Credited with having written over6,000 visas to save the lives of Jews fleeing German occupied Poland into Lithuania,Sugihara is regarded in Europe, in Japan, and within the Jewish community as awhole as an altruistic person.This study is not an inquiry into the merits of Sugihara's action, but rather astudy of how the process of memorializing, narrativizing and celebrating the life ofSugihara in two vastly different museums is part of a larger project of selectivecultural memory on the part of various Japanese organizations and institutions. Thispaper situates the themes of altruism and heroism in the larger process of culturalmemory, to see how such themes operate to advance other projects of collectivememory. The case of Sugihara is fascinating precisely because the vastly differingprocesses of cultural memory of the Holocaust―in Lithuania, in Japan, and in awider post-World War II, post Holocaust Jewish Diaspora each have different waysof constructing, disseminating and consuming narratives of altruism. This paper isbased on fieldwork in Kaunas and Vilnius, Lithuania, in 2003, 2004 and again in2005 and in Japan in 2005.

This research explores associations between land use types and young offender residential location in the Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada, at a small-area level. Employing a Bayesian spatial modelling approach, we found that after controlling for socio-economic risk factors, proportion of open area land use was positively associated, and road density negatively associated, with residential location of young offenders. Map decomposition, which visualises the contribution of each risk factor to total young offender risk, demonstrated that open area land use contributed more risk in rural areas than urban, and that road density contributed less risk in urban areas than rural. We propose explanations for these results focused on social disorganisation theory and accessibility to structured leisure activities and apply findings to inform law enforcement and land use planning. Results provide a criminological perspective not often considered in planning and urban studies research and contrast land use policies generally motivated by public health and the environment.