Takeshi Nakatani, the sole Japanese tour guide at Poland's national museum dedicated to the Auschwitz Nazi death camp, hopes the Japanese visitors he shows around will gain a good understanding of the suffering of the victims and of the importance and fragility of peace.
Nakatani, born in Kobe in January 1966, studied economics at a university in Japan. Although he was not interested in war-related stories, he remembered someone talking about the Auschwitz camp when he was a small boy.
In 1987, he visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oswiecim during a tour of Poland.