The following is an account by the Kabul-based Kyodo News string correspondent who became the only Japanese to be evacuated on a Japanese defense force plane from Afghanistan in the tumultuous days following the Taliban takeover of the war-torn country, as U.S. forces moved to complete their withdrawal before the end of August.----------------------------While I was on an Air Self-Defense Force plane bound for Pakistan's capital Islamabad, I busied myself with a gaming app on my smartphone. It didn't have to be a game, but I wanted to do something just so I could distract myself as much as …READ FULL ARTICLE
