When the 7.3 magnitude quake struck Kobe at 5:46 a.m. on Jan. 17, 1995 — killing greater than 6,400 individuals, together with 174 foreigners — survivor Roxana Oshiro, a second-generation Peruvian of Japanese descent, didn’t perceive Japanese.
A Japanese man guided Oshiro and her husband to the closest evacuation heart — a junior highschool. However, Oshiro refused to enter, unaware that it was earthquake-resistant.