Nakamura's Wishes for Afghanistan Live On 5 Years After His Death

   Fukuoka, Dec. 4 (Jiji Press)--Tetsu Nakamura's wishes for the reconstruction of Afghanistan live on five years after the Japanese doctor who worked in the country for many years providing medical assistance and building irrigation canals was killed there.
   Peace (Japan) Medical Services, or PMS, the Afghan unit of Peshawar-kai, a Japanese nongovernmental organization set up by Nakamura, has completed weirs at three river locations in Afghanistan after he was shot to death at the age of 73 on Dec. 4, 2019.
   "We will carry on with all of his wishes," said Chiyoko Fujita, 65-year-old head of the PMS support division of Peshawar-kai, based in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka. She worked with Nakamura for more than 30 years.
   Nakamura started providing assistance to Afghanistan in earnest in 1989, after giving medical care to people with Hansen's disease in neighboring Pakistan. Afghan refugees were among patients he treated there.
   He called for the recovery of self-sufficient agricultural villages as key to Afghanistan's reconstruction and started irrigation canal digging in 2003.

(2024/12/04-01:22)

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