THE POWER OF ONE
U mi Asaka was 15 when her family fled to New Zealand after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck her homeland Japan, followed by a devastating tsunami and nuclear power station disaster. After the magnitude 9.0 quake hit in March 2011, Umi’s father Hidetake rushed to her school to pick up his only daughter, who was worrying how she’d evacuate on a flight of stairs in her wheelchair.
“It was very scary because my classmates were too
