Ken'ichi Narikawa

Ken’ichi is a life-time member of Veterans for Peace and co-representative of Veterans for Peace Japan (VFP Japan).

He served in the Maritime Self-Defense Force for 27 years. His deployment to Djibouti led him to question the Self-Defense Force, and his request to retire was granted in 2014.

After traveling around the world and across Japan, he purchased and renovated an old farmhouse in a rural community in an outskirt of Hiroshima in 2017, with plans to become a farmer growing rice and soybeans based on natural farming methods.