Staff writer
Japan's first team of aid workers in Albania returned home recently, praising Kosovo refugees' "positive attitude" despite "terrible" living conditions, but lamenting the Japanese government's almost total failure to provide humanitarian support there.
Erika Ito and Mio Nozoe were among a group of five university student aid workers from Nihon Kinkyu Enjotai (Japan Emergency Team), a Tokyo-based nongovernmental organization that spent a week delivering supplies and providing medical assistance at refugee camps in Albania.