Japan is an ideal model for countries racked by conflict and poverty because of how it resurrected itself from the devastation of war and achieved peace, the first Arab woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize says.
"For us, Japan is the model that we want to realize in the future," Tawakkol Karman, 35, a Yemeni journalist and human rights activist, said during a recent interview in Tokyo with The Japan Times. "The country displays a strong example of the ways to transfer from war to peace, from poor to rich."
A mother of three, Karman has over the past decade devoted her life to bringing democracy and women's rights to her country.