Physician Tetsu Nakamura, 67, tries to take a different route to work each day and varies his departure times because that is the safest way to live in Taliban-troubled eastern Afghanistan.
His Peshawar-kai aid group has conducted medical and agricultural work there for the past three decades.
Nakamura also said it is essential to maintain close contact with the local police to keep abreast of the changing security situation.
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