For three inner city Chicago teens, the vivid memories of traveling to Japan with their Japanese-born school teacher as part of a program initiated by a former prime minister was a turning point that forever changed their lives.Erionna Tucker recalls the two trips she took when she attended "Langston Hughes Elementary School" -- a public school whose children range in age from kindergarten to junior high school -- as if they were yesterday. She was in the seventh and eighth grades, and Japanese language study at her school was compulsory.Now the 19-year-old continues language studies at DeP…READ FULL ARTICLE
