This is for Sudanese. Eligible or expected viewers are Sudanese living all over the world as well as those who are sincerely concerned with Sudan, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
According to a corner in a newspaper for introducing noteworthy people, a Japanese diplomat quit his lucrative job so as to work for poor Sudanese. This guy is also a medical doctor who graduated from the medical department of the same university that the famous Afghanistan-stationed humanitarian NGO’s doctor T. Nakamura had graduated from.
There is, of course, context which supposedly affected his decision. Two Japanese diplomats were killed on a road side north of Baghdad after American military took over the capital of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. They were two of five Japanese killed in Iraq, so far reported, since the Shock and Awe Operation had started. The two slain diplomats received honorable official funeral at home.
But it is not all. It is related to his internal quest. This ex-diplomat and medical doctor thought Africans still keep good nature modern Japanese people seem to have lost. He seems to believe that he will be able to find something valuable there in the difficult country of North Africa, such as good human conducts according to genuine humanity the nature or the God should implant in a human mind and soul.
He is asking his friends and private companies in Japan for help. Probably he could get support enough to provide some quality and quantity of help for poor people and refugees in Sudan.
It is well known that once Usama bin Laden took up residency and stationed his group in Sudan. Recently its oil resources were highly focused on with China successfully having concluded a contract with the Sudanese government for oil-production right.
This guy doesn’t seem to have any support from or linkage with the Japanese government or its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, so far. But, as the Ministry was recently severely criticized by the public for its bureaucrats’ misconduct of illegally managing its budget, they might well have to give, at least, cheer for its former colleague’s adventure.
I hope that there will be no Japanese victims in Sudan no matter how the situation develops.
In addition, it is said Sudanese dancers were popular in ancient Egypt. Probably, they could dance better than ancient Egyptians. So, perhaps, no Japanese girls even today could match them in this art. But, this does not seem to be the guy’s motive. His wife is reportedly determined to support her husband’s adventure by earning money through teaching profession, which might be almost nil in comparison with profits the couple should get if her husband continued his former career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.
(Source of Information: The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper)