LEADER 03814cam a2200685 i 4500001 99126211052106421 005 20240606061011.0 008 210406t20202020ja ab 001 0aeng d 010 2020436483 020 9784866581477 |q(hardback) 020 4866581476 |q(hardback) 035 (OCoLC)on1245174704 040 ITJCU |beng |erda |cITJCU |dLGG |dIOG |dGCO |dDLC |dBNG |dOWS |dOCLCF |dKMS |dTXI |dOCLCO |dUIU |dGZN |dEAU |dNGU |dOCL |dIXA |dCBY |dVP@ |dIRCJS |dOCLCQ |dFVL |dNUI |dOCLCO |dCTU |dDCK 041 1 eng |hjpn 043 a-af--- 050 00 RA771.7.A3 |bN3513 2020 066 |c$1 082 14 610.695 N16p 084 333.8262 |2njb/8 084 333.8271 |2njb/10 084 333.8271 |2njb/9 100 1 Nakamura, Tetsu, |d1946-2019, |eauthor. 240 10 |6880-01Ten tomo ni ari. |lEnglish 880 10 |6240-01/$1天, 共に在り. |lEnglish 245 10 Providence was with us : |bhow a Japanese doctor turned the Afghan desert green / |cNakamura Tetsu ; translated by Carl Freire. 246 30 How a Japanese doctor turned the Afghan desert green 250 First English edition 264 1 Tokyo : |bJapan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, |c2020. 264 4 |c©2020 300 xiv, 223 pages : |billustrations (some color), maps ; |c22 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 336 still image |bsti |2rdacontent 336 cartographic image |bcri |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 Japan library 546 In English translated from Japanese. 505 0 Introduction: Afghanistan, 2009 -- Memories of Encounters, 1946-1985. Heaven is with us ; The road to Peshawar -- Seeking the Water of Life, 1986-2001. Opening clinics amid a Civil War ; Persevering through drought and air strikes -- Creating Green Ground, 2002-2008. Seeking to revive farm villages ; Construction of the irrigation canal ; Relocating our base hospital and evacuating Japanese staff ; Setting our sights on the Gamberi Desert -- The Miracle Reaches the Desert : 2009 and Beyond. The blessings of the earth : opening the canal ; The lessons of the great flood of 2010. 520 Starting in 1984 and continuing until his untimely passing in 2019, Dr. Nakamura Tetsu carried out relief work in Pakistan and Afghanistan both as a physician and a humanitarian trying to improve living conditions for the people he met. This memoir recounts the travails and triumphs of Nakamura's three and a half decades in those two countries--Adapted from dust jacket 500 Translation of: Ten tomo ni ari : Afuganisutan sanjūnen no tatakai : NHK Shuppan, 2013 500 Includes index. 600 10 Nakamura, Tetsu, |d1946-2019. 650 0 Rural health services |zAfghanistan |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Community health services |zAfghanistan |xHistory |y20th century. 651 0 Afghanistan |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Physicians |zJapan |vBiography. 650 7 Community health services. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00870958 650 7 Physicians. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01062841 650 7 Rural health services. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01101665 651 7 Afghanistan. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01205406 651 7 Japan. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204082 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 655 7 Autobiographies. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01919894 655 7 Biographies. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 Autobiographies. |2lcgft 700 1 Freire, Carl, |etranslator. 830 0 Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan) 902 961172615 |wcopy |120221109101906.0 914 (OCoLC)on1245174704 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20240530 |eprocessed |f1245174704