UCLA pediatrician returns Japan's favor
Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 00:30
in Psychology & Sociology
A Japanese scholarship enabled Okinawa native Kozue Shimabukuro to study medicine. When disaster struck, she immediately signed up to join a medical relief effort. It's 'my turn to believe in Japan,' she says.Amid chaos that has become Yamada city — acres of snow-dusted debris, dusty relief trucks and a man who threw himself off a bridge the other day — Kozue Shimabukuro can't stop thinking about the cubbyhole lockers.