Graham with his Ishikawa students
US JET alum Graham Shelby authored an article recently published in the Lexington Herald-Ledger which looks back on his time as a JET in his Japanese furusato of Ishikawa, Fukushima-ken. He writes of his reconnection with his former life in Ishikawa, motivated by the events of 3.11.
Quake, tsunami a year ago refreshed Kentuckian’s memories of time in Japan
Twenty-three years old and eager to get out of my hometown, I left Lexington for Japan. In the summer of 1994, I took a job teaching English in Ishikawa, a small town surrounded by rice fields and forested hills in Fukushima Prefecture, about 100 miles north of Tokyo.
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