A 50-year-old woman who used to own a beauty salon in Kiev came to Japan with her two teenage daughters in the fall of 2022.
She said her daughters who survived a missile strike during the fighting told her that they do not want to return to Ukraine.
She already brought her husband, who is blind, to Japan as well.
“I have decided to start a new chapter of my life in Japan,” she said.
With Feb. 24 marking two years since the Russian invasion began, the preliminary number of evacuees from Ukraine that Japan has accepted by Feb. 14 is 2,593, according…
