CULTURE SHOCK WIDYATAMA UNIVERSITY STUDENT IN FOLLOWING LANGUAGE SCHOOL PROGRAMS IN JAPAN

Abstract

Culture shock is a term commonly used to describe someone's surprise, anxiety and
frustration when faced with a culture that is different from the culture from which it
originated, for example when migrating to a foreign country. This is very natural experienced
by a migrant as a form of reaction to the loss of some or all of the signs in the culture that had
been adopted. This study aims to determine the forms and symptoms of culture shock of
Widyatama students during Japanese language school programs in Japan. The research
method used is descriptive method that is to describe or describe a thing. The sample of this
research is the writer himself who did the Japanese language school program in Osaka Gaigo
Gakuin. In the end this study concluded that the authors experienced a culture of shock in the
form of internal and external.