ICRC staffer Okimoto recounts his work in strife-torn lands

ICRC staffer Okimoto recounts his work in strife-torn lands

TOKYO, Japan - Keiichiro Okimoto, one of only three Japanese staff members of the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross, talks about his work in strife-torn countries in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2009. (Kyodo)

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