Hatsuko Ota (71), a fourth-year student at the Faculty of Social Welfare, Tokyo University of Social Welfare, who died in the tsunami caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake, will enter graduate school this spring.
Hatsuko Ota, a native of Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture, was caught in a tsunami on her way to an evacuation center on March 2011, 3. Died in.
After a while, I saw people who were crying because they couldn't eat because of the shock and loneliness of being washed away, losing their families, and thinking, "I want to reduce these people as much as possible." After studying in a temporary housing, he passed the Faculty of Social Welfare, Tokyo University of Social Welfare by recommendation in 12.I was able to receive a tuition exemption as a special support measure for the victims, which is part of the university's support for the affected areas. After studying at the university for four years, he will enter the graduate school of the same university this spring.
Mr. Ota is still paralyzed in his limbs due to the aftereffects of the accident more than XNUMX years ago, but he will study community welfare so that people with disabilities and the elderly can live with peace of mind by making use of his experience as a disabled person. It's a plan.
