Arlington Educator Selected to Visit Fukushima, Japan
Amy Yamashiro will be a part of the Japanese American Leadership Delegation that will visit the country in March.
For Amy Yamashiro, the thought of viewing human perseverance in Fukushima, Japan, is inspiring. Fukushima is home to a nuclear plant that experienced three meltdowns in 2011 after an earthquake and tsunami hit the area. Its severity has since been likened to Chernobyl. Yamashiro is heading to Fukushima in March. She'll be there for the second anniversary of the meltdown. “It’s always impressive to see the resilience — how people just get through every day and maintain their dignity through whatever they need to do to express their emotions,” Yamashiro told Patch. Yamashiro, a data specialist at the Arlington Partnership for Children, Youth and Families, learned in December she would be one of 10 Japanese Americans to visit the country as …
