More than a year after escaping her native Kyiv with a broken leg one winter night, Lidiya Bibko lives in a tidy two-bedroom Tokyo flat as one of 2,300 Ukrainians who fled to Japan after the Russian invasion.
Japan¡¯s embrace of evacuees like Bibko has been unusual for a country notorious for its aversion toward foreign entanglements and immigrants, but the war in Ukraine has sparked a rare outpouring of public support.
When Prime Minister Fumio Kishida hosts the Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima starting Friday, Japan¡¯s backing of Ukraine will be on full display as he leads the discussion to confirm a united front against Russia.
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