In my Reading and Writing Japanese class this week, my teacher taught us about Japan's natural disaster warning system. We learned phrases and vocabulary having to do with emergencies and evacuation.
My teacher was teaching a level 1 Japanese class during the spring 2011 semester. She observed that the lower level Japanese students were confused and scared because they only knew basic Japanese at that point and couldn't understand anything on TV. She told us that out of her 12 level 1 students, fewer and fewer came to class in the days following the earthquake. In the end, she only had one student left. I heard that in the spring semester in 2011 there were also 300 to 400 exchange students at Kansai Gaidai, and due to the huge earthquake about two-thirds of them returned home. Many were forced by their parents or their home institutions to leave Japan following the disaster.
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