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Name	Flavia
Gender	female
Country of Origin	Italy
Destination Country	Japan

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s-1	Im originally from Rome, but I have been living in Tokyo since 2011.
s-2	This wasn't my first time in Japan — I had visited the country in 2002 for a couple of months.
s-3	Back then, I had just started to learn Japanese and I decided to come and get an idea of what the country was like.
s-4	That first visit happened during the summer, and the heat was unbearable.
s-5	Tokyo was crowded to an extent that I could never have imagined, and I would never have thought that a few years later I would be living here.
s-6	But then I came back for a second visit, arriving in autumn, and my impressions were completely different.
s-7	I also met many Japanese people on this trip, and those interactions made me think that I could manage moving here for a while.
s-8	In March 2011, the strongest earthquake ever registered in Japan occurred; it triggered a major tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people and caused the nuclear accident of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant.
s-9	At that point everybody I knew was against me moving to Japan.
s-10	Nevertheless, on my birthday I left Rome.
s-11	I didnt know how long I was to stay.
s-12	What I knew was that I needed to expand my world and push myself in another environment.
s-13	I wanted to improve my Japanese and pursue my research of Japanese culture.
s-14	I was an Italian teacher for 3 years and my life in Japan has gone through different phases.
s-15	Currently, Im a researcher and I'm studying how the role of past-disaster memory can improve Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) policies.
s-16	I think many foreigners do not know much about it and are in danger of being unprepared in the case of an emergency.
s-17	Migrants are often considered a burden in times of crisis such as natural disasters, especially in Japan, because of language barriers.
s-18	Id like to contribute in creating more opportunities for foreigners to be aware of disaster risk prevention and enhance their active participation.
s-19	DRR starts with social integration, a process that needs to be developed in our everyday life.
s-20	I do miss many things about my country and especially about Rome, my hometown.
s-21	I miss my family, my friends, and the openhearted way in which Italian people communicate.
s-22	Social interactions in Japan are completely different from those in Italy and I find them particularly difficult to manage.
s-23	But I do feel that I have more opportunities here, especially with regards to my research; access to resources is easier and social problems here are on a different scale than in Italy or Europe, therefore it is easier to make contacts and find interesting areas of culture and society to study.
s-24	As a foreigner who can speak several languages and has knowledge of many different cultures, I believe I can bring this diversity to Japan and improve its connection with foreign cultures.
s-25	Japan is still closed to the outside and it needs people that can participate in the delicate process of cultural mediation.
s-26	While I think it is important that Japan becomes more open to migrants and foreign cultures, I strongly believe that as foreigners in Japan we need to respect the country and learn as much as possible to be able to negotiate our presence here.
s-27	People contemplating migration are often scared of what they do not know.
s-28	Societies tend to be closed to outsiders because people fear losing their identity.
s-29	Without trying to know the other, and especially without setting clear and reasonable immigration policies, the exchanges between Japanese people and foreigners will always end up in a cultural clash.
s-30	I dont know how long I will be staying in Japan, but home is a warm place inside us made of human relationships and strong self-confidence.
s-31	When we reach that place, nothing can take it away from us.
s-32	We can live wherever and still feel at home.

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