Roxana Oshiro, a Peruvian of Japanese descent, came to Japan in 1991 and was living in a dormitory in Kobe with her husband and child when the Great Hanshin Earthquake hit the region in 1995.
After a violent jolt, she desperately kicked the door open and got out of the dormitory, which was run by her husband¡¯s employer.
¡°I didn¡¯t understand Japanese at the time, and the only word that I understood from some broadcasts was tsunami,¡± Oshiro said. ¡°Taking it to mean a tsunami was coming, I panicked and cried.¡±
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