Japanese foreign exchange students met in the counseling center in Rodda Hall South on March 16, five days after the 9.0 magnitude earthquake.
City College hosts 13 exchange students from Japan, among them Satomi Nomota who says she was grateful for the opportunity to join the other students, many of whom she had never met before.
“I knew one girl that attended,” Nomota said. “The other students I met for the first time that day. It’s not easy to meet each other, so that was a good opportunity.”
Nomota is from Nagano, Japan, which is located in the middle of the country. She says her friends and family felt aftershocks from the 9.0 magnitude earthquake, but they are safe.
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“My family and friends are safe, but Japan is my home, so it [still] affects me,” Nomota said.
“At first I didn’t think it was such a big deal,” Nomota says of the first articles she read about the earthquake in Japan. “We don’t have Japanese television programs, so I get all my information from the Internet. I thought ‘it’s just an earthquake,’ but after a few days and that was all [that was] on the news, then I knew it was more.”
Nomota says the Japanese culture generally copes with grief and tragedy differently than other cultures.
“It depends on the individual,” Nomota said. “But [usually] for Japanese, we don’t cry or show our grief that way. I stay busy and try to stay positive. Many people try to protect themselves [that way]. Otherwise it’s so sad; it can be choking to see it every day, how many people died and how many are still lost.”