Chinese International Students’ Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan

AN Tingting, HU Shi

doi:10.57289/jasc.43.3_233

<p>The COVID-19 Pandemic has had a significant impact on learning experience, daily life, and the psychological wellbeing of university students. Especially Chinese students may have had unique experiences including the difficulty of going back home, worries about the future, and possible discrimination considering that the virus was reported as having originated from China. This paper aims to understand the experience of Chinese international students in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Interview data collected from eight Chinese international students was analyzed using qualitative approach. The results showed their financial difficulties, the stress of not being able to go back home, and negative emotions such as guilt from being Chinese, anxiety about the future, loneliness from staying home, sadness, and anger from discrimination. Those stresses and negative emotions may lead to mental health problems. They also showed efforts toward regulating their emotions and accepting reality. It is necessary to provide financial support, learning support, mental health support for them and at the same time deal with the possibility of discrimination and minimize its impact.</p>

Chinese International Students’ Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan

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