@article{c47a8aa63b2d4bc0a1730aa09b1bd029,
title = "3 Japanese Language Grads Earn National Honors",
author = "Evie Hemphill and Keiko Ueda",
note = "{"}Daijoubu? Daijoubu?{"} The Japanese word for {"}OK{"} was the only one Susanne Mackay knew in March 2011, when a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, where her late mother was born and raised. {"}We couldn't communicate with my mother's family at all - that's the only word I knew, so it was hard,{"} recalls Mackay, a student at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville at the time.",
year = "2015",
month = jul,
day = "7",
language = "American English",
journal = "UMSL Daily",
}