Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, a television celebrity and goodwill ambassador of the United Nations Children's Fund, said in a recent interview with Kyodo News that she is opposed to a violent retaliatory campaign by the United States and its allies in Afghanistan.

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

She is urging the Taliban regime to hand over Osama bin Laden, the man identified by the United States as the prime suspect behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, in an effort to avoid further carnage.