Only about a year in Japan after fleeing the war in her native Ukraine, 12-year-old Olivia Zhyblovska has graduated from an elementary school in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward.
More than 2,000 Ukrainians had entered Japan as of mid-October, according to the Immigration Services Agency, living in prefectures across the nation as they worked to build a new life.
Ukrainians who made the gut-wrenching decision to give up everything they knew for sanctuary in Japan following the Russian invasion seem by and large to be adjusting to the different pace of life here.