Mayu Tsuruta is an actress. In 1996 she was nominated by the Award of the Japanese Academy for Best Supporting Actress in the film Kike wadatsumi no koe Last Friends. Following the chaos of Kenya's 2007 presidential election

Kenyan presidential election, 2007

A presidential election was held as part of the Kenyan general election on December 27, 2007; parliamentary elections were held on the same date. Incumbent President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner and sworn in on December 30, despite opposition leader Raila Odinga's claims of victory...

, on March 30, 2008, she visited thousands of internal refugees at Kenya

Kenya

Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

's Nakuru

Nakuru

Nakuru, the provincial capital of Kenya's Rift Valley province, with roughly 300,000 inhabitants, and currently the fourth largest urban centre in the country, lies about 1850 m above sea level...

 ASK grounds, as a goodwill ambassador

Goodwill Ambassador

Goodwill Ambassador is a collective term sometimes used as a substitute honorific title or a title of honor for an Ambassador of Goodwill; but, most appropriately for a generic recognition, it is a job position or description that is usually indicated following the name of the individual recognized...

 for Tokyo International Conference on African Development

Tokyo International Conference on African Development

is a conference held every five years in Tokyo, Japan, with the objective "to promote high-level policy dialogue between African leaders and development partners." Japan is a co-host of these conferences. Other co-organizers of TICAD are the United Nations Office of the Special Advisor on Africa...

. While surveying the situation at the refugee camp

Refugee camp

A refugee camp is a temporary settlement built to receive refugees. Hundreds of thousands of people may live in any one single camp. Usually they are built and run by a government, the United Nations, or international organizations, or NGOs.Refugee camps are generally set up in an impromptu...

, she spent time with several families and helped distribute food aid.

Partial filmography

1. Katenkoru (2005)
2. Year One in the North (北の零年, 2005)
3. 半落ち (Hanochi, 2004)
4. Mr. Rookie (ミスター・ルーキー, 2002)
5. Owls' Castle
   Owls' Castle
   Owl's Castle is a 1999 Japanese ninja-themed film written by Masahiro Shinoda and Katsuo Naruse and directed by Masahiro Shinoda. It is a remake of the 1963 film Castle of Owls, based on Ryotaro Shiba's 1959 novel under the same name.The film starred Kiichi Nakai, Takaya Kamikawa, Mayu Tsuruta and...
   
   (梟の城, 1999)
6. きけ、わだつみの声　Last Friends (Kike wadatsumi no koe Last Friends, 1995)
7. 卒業旅行　ニホンから来ました (Sotsugyo ryoko: Nihon kara kimashita) (1994)

External links

tsurutamayu.com JMDb profile