I hope the school had some advice for the injured student to find housing?

I don’t know what conversations went on between him and the school. The solution he found was to live with his girlfriend until he had recovered enough to get up and down the stairs in our residence.

But seriously, I am very sad if Yamasa has changed so much that students feel they don’t care anymore about the students.

I don’t know how I feel about the current situation here, really. For the most part people have been really nice and helpful to me. One of my teachers helped me apply to the gamer school I wanted to go to. She spent every Friday for a month doing mock interviews with me and otherwise walking me through the application process. And now that I got in, she’s been helping me with things such as getting my housing situation sorted out.

But in addition to the stuff that I mentioned above, I’ve also found that my friends haven’t gotten the same kind of help that I have. Part of it, I recently discovered, is that — while the website says that Yamasa will help with job placement — the truth is that they had to stop doing that some years ago because of some kind of problem with immigration. But there is still a clear difference between my experience and that of my friends when they have asked their teachers for help.

I don’t know why there’s a difference; I just know that there is one.

When I was at Yamasa in 2001, I became very ill and asked them to take me to the Hospital ER. 2 staff from Student Services flew into action, grabbing a J->E dictionary and me, they jumped into a worker’s car and had me at the ER in 15 minutes. I had no money and I didn’t even know if I had insurance (was just a college kid back then; no clue). But they sat with me in the waiting room, explained everything to the doctor, and explained what was happening to me.

Then when I got a prescription and sent on my way, the Yamasa staff (I can’t remember her name! ) gave me close to 25000 yen to pay the bill and buy the medicine!!! I was so grateful. Of course I paid her back the next day.

But seriously, I am very sad if Yamasa has changed so much that students feel they don’t care anymore about the students.
Say it ain’t so!

It really sucks that that sudent wasn’t able to get medical treatment for the panic attacks. I guess my little anectdote is to say that I almost experienced the same thing.

I, too, noticed some issues in the smaller town that I was in in regards to accessibility. When I went to the Human Rights Museum in Osaka, there was a whole section in regards to the activism being done for accessibility for people with disabilities. An uphill battle, but one that is being fought.