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    Dr. Tetsu Nakamura was a Japanese medical doctor and NGO representative who was killed in an attack in Afghanistan in December 2019. He had worked as a doctor in Pakistan and Afghanistan since the mid-1980s, witnessing major hardships from drought. In response, he devoted his life to agricultural development and irrigation projects, which were highly acclaimed and earned him awards including the Ramon Magsaysay Award, known as the Nobel Prize in Asia. He was also associated with the International Society of Paddy and Water Environment Engineering, which recognized his contributions to irrigation projects in Afghanistan at its 2014 conference, where he presented on his work developing irrigation canals and transforming desert land to green areas.

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    Dr. Tetsu Nakamura was a Japanese medical doctor and NGO representative who was killed in an attack in Afghanistan in December 2019. He had worked as a doctor in Pakistan and Afghanistan since the mid-1980s, witnessing major hardships from drought. In response, he devoted his life to agricultural development and irrigation projects, which were highly acclaimed and earned him awards including the Ramon Magsaysay Award, known as the Nobel Prize in Asia. He was also associated with the International Society of Paddy and Water Environment Engineering, which recognized his contributions to irrigation projects in Afghanistan at its 2014 conference, where he presented on his work developing irrigation canals and transforming desert land to green areas.

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    Memorial Writing for Dr.

    Tetsu Nakamura

    On December 4, 2019, in Jalalabad, Nangarhar Province, located in the eastern part of Afghanistan, Dr.
    Tetsu Nakamura, a Japanese medical doctor and the local representative of a non-government
    organization (NGO), Peshawar Association, was attacked and killed by an armed group. This news was
    widely broadcasted to the world with great impact and reported daily in Japan. We were all sad to learn
    of Dr. Nakamura’s untimely death before reaching the pinnacle of his career. We express our
    condolences to Dr. Tetsu Nakamura’s family.

    Dr. Nakamura, as is well known, worked as a medical doctor in Peshawar and Afghanistan in
    northwestern Pakistan since the mid-1980s. During this time he witnessed the hardships the people went
    through when Afghanistan was hit by a major drought. As a result, he devoted his life to agricultural
    development by maintenance of reservoirs and agricultural irrigation canal as humanitarian aid. These
    activities have been highly acclaimed both domestically and internationally, and Dr. Nakamura was
    awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award, which is recognized as the Nobel Prize in Asia. He learned the
    technique himself while being a doctor and worked as an irrigation drainage engineer in the field.

    Dr. Nakamura has been associated with our Society for many years and we would like to express our
    grief for his death by listing out his achievements as a member of our Society.

    In 2014 Dr. Nakamura received an international award from the International Society of Paddy and
    Water Environment Engineering (PAWEES), at its Kaoshing Conference in Taiwan, for his exceptional
    and valuable contributions to the advancement of paddy and water engineering with the execution of
    “Green Earth Plan to deliver life water to Afghanistan-Construction of Malwa Reed Canal System”.
    Going through the material available with our Society, we learned that in order to proceed with the
    construction, Dr. Nakamura learned the design and construction technology for irrigation canal
    construction based on the land improvement project plan design standards of the Ministry of
    Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. He visited the agricultural irrigation facility, understood the wisdom
    embedded in the masonry of Yamada weir existing in the Chikugo River, adopted this method, and
    finally completed the intake weir after trial and error in accordance with the site. Nakamura had
    accumulated the same technical study and experience as those of agricultural and rural engineering
    researchers and engineers.

    Photograph Dr. Nakamura at the 2014 PAWEES International Award (fourth from the right)

    Dr. Nakamura flew in from Afghanistan to accept his award and in his lecture at the award ceremony.

    He introduced the recent drought situation due to climate change in Afghanistan, the mechanism of the
    Slanting Weir learned from the Chikugo River weir in Japan, its application in the field, the development
    of drainage channels, and the results of agricultural development. With the development of agricultural
    water, the results of the local irrigation project, which took about 10 years and was reborn from desert to
    green land, were well understood. What is surprising here is that the scale of the business is comparable
    to that of large-scale irrigation projects deployed overseas.

    He went on to say that the business uses the labor force of local people, Japanese traditional methods,
    various materials, and construction machinery, and is not at all inferior to the business performed by
    professional engineers. The success of agricultural development through irrigation and drainage project
    by a doctor from a private organization is not only a matter of technical skills, but also the ability to
    practice the project, such as management. It is extremely alarming.

    In addition, at our conferences in 2009 and 2018, the book “Doctors, pioneering irrigation canals,” and
    the DVD “Planning and production of ‘grace and peace carried by Afghan irrigation canals,’”
    respectively were awarded the Agricultural and Rural Engineering Society Award.

    We would like to express our deepest sympathies to Dr. Tetsu Nakamura.

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