Cross-cultural friendship takes teen on trip to Japan

McKenzie Walker has started her junior year in high school, but her most educational experience may have been the six weeks she spent by herself in Japan ? next door to a bathhouse.

Walker, 16, of Sweet Home, spent July 13-Aug. 24 with the family of Saku Shimada, whom she met when Shimada was a Josai exchange student at Sweet Home High School in 2003-04.

Shimada, now 19, lived a few houses away from the…

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