Body of slain Japanese doctor Tetsu Nakamura arrives in Fukuoka after Afghanistan shooting
Funeral services will be held Wednesday in Fukuoka. Japanese police will conduct an autopsy to determine the cause of death and launch an investigation into his murder.
Body of Japanese doctor gunned down in Afghanistan arrives in Japan
The body of Tetsu Nakamura, a Japanese physician and devoted aid worker who was gunned down in Afghanistan, is brought back to Japan by members of his family.
Family, friends and Afghans helped by Japanese physician Tetsu Nakamura mourn his death
The wife of Dr. Tetsu Nakamura, the 73-year-old physician killed earlier this week in a roadside shooting in eastern Afghanistan, wept softly as she stood by her husband's coffin in a Kabul hospital Friday. Naoko Nakamura arrived in the capital earlier Friday with her daughter ...
Body of Tetsu Nakamura, Japanese doctor gunned down in Afghanistan, leaves for home with family
The family of Japanese physician Tetsu Nakamura, a devoted aid worker who was killed in a shooting this past week in Afghanistan, on Saturday left for Fukuoka with his body. The Afghan government held a ceremony at an airport in Kabul, with President Ashraf Ghani ...
It is up to us to ensure that the work and spirit of Tetsu Nakamura live on.
Famed Japanese doctor Tetsu Nakamura, slain in Afghanistan, spent his life helping the poor
Japanese physician Tetsu Nakamura, one of six people gunned down in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, was a committed aid worker who had for decades provided medical treatment and help to the poor in the borderlands of the country and Pakistan. In recognition of his significant ...
Killing of aid group chief Tetsu Nakamura in Afghanistan looked like well-planned hit
In Tokyo on Thursday, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Japan “strongly condemns” the malicious attack and that it will not be forgiven.
Washington's special peace envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, was in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday to launch an "accelerated effort" to get Afghans on both sides of the protracted conflict to the negotiation table to plot a roadmap to a postwar Afghanistan. His next stop will ...
Well-known Japanese doctor and humanitarian Tetsu Nakamura gunned down in Afghanistan attack
The 73-year-old physician, who headed Peace Japan Medical Services, was killed by gunmen while in a vehicle in Jalalabad, in Nangarhar province, according to Afghan officials.
Australian Taliban prisoner freed after over three years recounts rescue attempts by U.S. Navy SEALs
An Australian teacher held captive with an American colleague by the Taliban for more than three years believes U.S. Special Forces tried and failed six times to free them. Timothy Weeks was released last month in a prisoner swap along with Kevin King, ending an ...
Trump in Afghanistan for surprise Thanksgiving visit, tells troops Taliban seeks cease-fire
President Donald Trump paid a surprise Thanksgiving visit to Afghanistan, where he announced the U.S. and Taliban have been engaged in ongoing peace talks and said he believes the Taliban wants a cease-fire. In his first trip to the site of America's longest war, Trump ...
West Indies on brink of three-day test victory against Afghans
West Indies was on the brink of victory against Afghanistan in their one-off test after stocky offspinner Rahkeem Cornwall achieved a match haul of 10 wickets on day two Thursday. Shamarh Brook's maiden test hundred anchored the West Indies to 277 in its first innings ...
