Tetsu Nakamura (physician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Japanese physician
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Place of Birth: Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
About Tetsu Nakamura (physician)
- Tetsu Nakamura (?? ?, Nakamura Tetsu, Pashto: ???? ?????????), also known as Kaka Murad (15 September 1946 – 4 December 2019) (???? ????, lit.
- "Uncle Murad" in Pashto and Farsi), was a Japanese physician and honorary Afghan citizen who headed Peace Japan Medical Services (PMS), an aid group known as Peshawar-kai in Japanese.
- He was a recipient of the Philippines' Ramon Magsaysay Award—often called Asia's Nobel Prize—for peace and international understanding.One of his Japanese colleagues, Kazuya Ito, who was an agricultural specialist working on the construction of irrigation channels in the Kuz Kunar District of Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province, was abducted and killed by the Taliban militants in 2008 as he was on his way to an irrigation project's site in the area.
- Nakamura continued to work in the country and later devoted to building canal projects himself, taking water from the Kunar River in eastern Afghanistan.
- Nakamura was credited for transforming the vast desert area of Gamberi, on the outskirts of Jalalabad in Nangarhar Province, into lush forests and productive wheat farmlands.
- Apart from irrigation projects, he also constructed two hospitals and two mosques.
- On 7 October 2019, the Afghan president Ashraf Ghani granted honorary Afghan citizenship to Nakamura in acknowledgement of his humanitarian work spanning over three decades. On 4 December 2019, as Nakamura was heading to work in his aid vehicle in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, he was assassinated by gunmen along with his bodyguards and driver.
- He succumbed to his injuries at Jalalabad Airport as he was being prepared to be airlifted to a U.S.-operated military hospital in Bagram near Kabul.
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