Dancer, biker, newscaster— Meet NHK World’s Yuko Fukushima
By Steve Trautlein
TOKYO —
Japanese TV stars are notorious for their empty personalities, so when Yuko Fukushima pulls up to our office on a low-slung Kawasaki, she makes a winning first impression. It turns out that’s the least of it. In addition to her leading role on NHK World’s flagship news program, the 38-year-old anchor is an accomplished tap dancer who holds a law degree from Keio University.Fukushima’s wide-ranging interests, she says, can be traced to an unlikely source: chocolate. “When I was 6 years old, my family moved from Tokyo to Seattle. I didn’t speak any English — seriously, the only word I knew was ‘bathroom.’ But it happened to be Valentine’s Day, and all my classmates had prepared candy for me, even though they hadn’t met me yet. Something like that would have never happened at my school in Japan.”
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