PROFILE

I was covering Afghanistan and Iraq, Palestine and Sri Lanka, etc., as a freelance photographer since 1993.
Immediately after the terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001, I entered Afghanistan and started working as staff member of Kyodo News.
Moved to Afghanistan and continue to work with Kyodo News Kabul bureau.

At the request of internally displaced persons interviewed in 2002, the returnees children were in a situation of school shortage.
There was no school for children at that time, and children living in internally displaced persons camps Established a school for children and engaged in educational support for children by own budget and responsible .( I wrote a book about education support for the returnee children in Japanese .Book title "Afghanistan, my favorite country" by Akane Shobo) The school that has been operating for 6 years is no longer needed with the reconstruction and is closed.
And I established handicrafts factory for Afghan women to support Afghan families in countries where poverty is a major issue.
And continues to the present.