Months after a military coup in Myanmar, the country is still in turmoil. And thousands of kilometers away in Fukuoka, Takashi Takino, 78, who supports an orphanage and other organizations in Myanmar's largest city of Yangon, receives a steady stream of messages from Myanmar people expressing their plight.
“A school nearby has been bombed,” one of the messages reads.
Although he is distressed by the political unrest, which occurred while he was temporarily back in Japan due to the spread of the coronavirus, he continues to send messages of encouragement to the people of Myanmar.