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Aflac Incorporated Year in Review 2015 | 19
The story of the Aflac Parents House is one of hope, love and courage. The Aflac Parents
House provides cheerful and spacious accommodations where pediatric patients and
their families can stay together in a home-away-from-home environment while they fight
cancer or other serious diseases. Through generous donations from Aflac Japan’s sales
agents, employees and ocers, three Parents House locations – two in Tokyo and one
in Osaka – Aflac Japan is helping thousands of children and adolescents battling health
issues, while also supporting the families that love them. The encouraging smiles and
unending support of the sta and volunteers at the Aflac Parents House help provide a
setting where families can summon the strength to overcome their treatment journey.
Shizuko Yoshino’s story is a rich one, indeed, with many exciting chapters that span conti-
nents and echo similar themes: family, hard work and helping others. She and her husband
moved from Japan to the United States in the early 1960s. Her husband worked as a
professor at Harvard University, and she was a library employee there for 35 years. Mrs.
Yoshino always found the time to volunteer to help young and elderly people of dierent
walks of life. Following her husband leaving the university, she moved back to Japan in
2009. She spends a great deal of her time at one of the two Aflac
Parents House locations in Tokyo. There, she is in charge of culti-
vating a rooftop garden that yields fresh fruits and vegetables
used to feed children facing cancer and other serious illnesses.