The way of a Japanese samurai in Ukraine
"I won't regret it even if I die," says Takao, a Japanese who first volunteered in Ukraine and then became a soldier
In a country 10,000 kilometres away from his home, Takeo Tainaka, 35, radically changed his life.
In early 2022, he was working as a management consultant in Japan. But the reverberations of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine cut his career short. After learning from the war in local news, Takao decided to help Ukrainian civilians.
As a volunteer, he has been in different cities – from Kyiv, Kharkiv and Kramatorsk to the extremely dangerous Orikhiv and Bakhmut, a culmination in the Battle of the Donbas.
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