Japanese woman fights to keep focus on plight of Chechens

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techall at 01:19 PM JST - 29th October

Actually it sounds like this young woman is doing something constructive with her life. She attended Moscow University and works for an international humanitarian organization. This puts her lightyears ahead of the idiots who decide to go into war zones by themselves just out of curiosity.
Ari94 at 01:19 PM JST - 29th October

Altria for Yukiko Picture you should look at Online Japan Times October 21, 2008.

Yukiko Kikuchi's efforts surprised me. She is doing what most Japanese don't. I know there could be difference of opinion here but we should praise if someone do some thing good. Her work reminds me Operation Hajji Baba that was a humanitarian airlift operation performed by the United States Air Force between 25 and 29 August 1952. The best airlifting in the history but there are few people who knew it.
Beelzebub at 03:23 PM JST - 29th October

As I've been given to understand, the Chechens are the Sicilians of the former Soviet Union. If Josef Stalin couldn't exterminate them, they can survive anything.
tzvete at 04:21 PM JST - 29th October

Any good deed,no matter the reason for it,should be warm-welcomed and praized.I admire the Japanese for their wholeheartedness in whatever they are doing.
Youdontknow at 11:40 PM JST - 29th October

Student+War Zone+Socialist mind set = dull story.
ca1ic0cat at 03:13 AM JST - 30th October

Hey at least she is trying. I hope she doesn't end up another of the Kremlin's victims though. It seems that anybody who disagrees with Putin ends up dying. And the Kremlin says everything is just hunky dory in Chechnya.
MeanRingo at 04:53 AM JST - 30th October

I for one am just happy that her parents have the dough to pay for all of her thoughtfulness. Would she be so eager to act in such a humanitarian manner were she paying the bill? I wonder. Still, at least she has learned where Chechnya is on a map, and that is a lot more that most in Japan. I dare say a few wouldn't even know where Russia is.
elbudamexicano at 07:28 AM JST - 30th October

"One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist." I see nothing but praise for Ms.Kikuchi (a foreigner in Russia) meddling in the internal affairs and sovereignty of Russia. I am sure for many Russians, she maybe seen a a Chechen supporter/spy. I wonder how the Japanese would like to have a Russian student going around Japan fighting for the rights of the Ainu? The Okinawans? The Burakumin?
Osakadaz at 08:35 AM JST - 30th October

brave girl.The Russians don't like Chechen sympathisers.
hoserfella at 09:21 AM JST - 30th October

Aren't these the same "freedom fighters" that killed dozens of Russian schoolchildren and teachers a few years ago in Odessa?
techall at 12:05 PM JST - 30th October

MeanRingo: The story says she is working for an NGO - I would guess they are footing her bill.

It seems that she is addressing the needs of the civilian collaterial damage victims of the war, not the "freedom fighters". The Red Cross, Red Cresent and other NGOs do the same all over the world.
okapake at 12:35 AM JST - 31st October

Why isn't she being more attention to the plight of her own people in Japan - the the homeless, elderly, etc.?
ScottishThug at 07:11 AM JST - 4th November

Georgia needs to learn some respect.
elbudamexicano at 03:49 PM JST - 7th November

I just love how these people go to far off exoctic dangerous places to fight for the rights of Chechens etc..shile as okapake mentions, "Why isn't she being more attention to the plight of her own people in Japan - the the homeless, elderly, etc.?" very good point indeed!
TheDonald at 08:44 AM JST - 9th November

Brave girl. I just wish people like her would put their effort and humanitarian goodwill towards those who need it in their homeland, before needing to go a million miles to somewhere else and doing it.

She can glean all her same perspective enlightenments just from working with a have-not and barely-able Japanese as she can working with them in a dangerzone in Europe.

No deridment intended, just some minor criticism, because she's still doing more than the average person to be a constructive contributor to humanity, but it's just funny how everyone always skips over their own back yard to tend to fences elsewhere, when they could do just as much, and probably more impactful, good at home.

I hope she not only survives her lil mission, but returns home and recognizes work that she could get done at home, too.