Main category	Sub Category	Representative example (Excerpt)
Admit oneself	Sense of self-belief	I think I have greatly recovered mentally.
	Sense of self-belief	I thought I was carrying a heavy burden, but I can do it.
	Strength of the self	After the earthquake, I realized that I am more emotional than my husband. Before that, I used to rely on my husband all the time.
	Sense of accomplishment	I think I’m living a full life, but I don’t know how other people see it.
	Sense of accomplishment	I think I can accept this as long as I am not overwhelmed.
Surviving Life	Life Affirmation	There is no excess or deficiency. I think it makes life more enjoyable. I have a lot of pain. A little joy cancels out the pain.
		I’m living my life with all these things. I believe that being alive is life.
		I want to enjoy my life even more. Sometimes I feel like an idiot.
		I’ve been blessed with a lot of people. I think I’m happy.
	Life Direction	We are all on the same path. I believed that life was about walking a certain distance at a certain rhythm. There was a time when I thought so.
	Trajectory of Life	I’ve lived. I think I’ve been trying really hard.
	Live frantically	I don’t think I felt anything. But I sometimes thought that life was hard.
Connecting with Nature	Man in Nature	The scale of nature is beyond the reach of human power. I think about it sometimes.
	Man in Nature	I sometimes think that humans are dominated by the rising and setting of the sun.
	Healing of the Sea	I was thinking how nice it would be to see that big Pacific Ocean.
Connection with others	Human kindness	Human feelings. I don’t know what to say. What I think and recognize is that people are kind to others.
	Respect for others	All kinds of people came. I was impressed with everyone.
		How can I explain people? There’s a lot of good people out there right now.
		If I were like that, I wouldn’t be able to go there. I thought, “Wow, you guys are amazing”
	Relationships with others, make an effort	We’re trying to make an effort so that we don’t have to take care of people too much.
	Relationships with others, make an effort	I thought to myself, if I don’t treat people well, they won’t treat me well.
Thinking mind	Emotional conflict	I think I need to listen to them and understand them.
	Change in consciousness	There was a time when I thought, “I’ve been living by myself, so I can continue to live by myself,” but after all, it’s good to have children and grandchildren and friends.
	Direction of thought	It’s changed. The way I look at things, yeah. I think my way of thinking has changed.
The meaning of life	Acceptance of life and death	I realized that people’s lives and deaths are a part of everyday life. I guess you could say I gave up. I thought it was just like that, and I got my answer and my mind settled there.
	Hold on to life	In the midst of the disaster, everyone held on for dear life. I think more strongly about this after the earthquake.
	Spiritual improvement	Whether it was the earthquake or anything else, I realized that the most important thing was the lives of my family members.
		I’m glad that I had this experience after the earthquake.
		I thought, “People are so insignificant.”I guess I started to think that way because of the earthquake. I don’t know, but I think so.
Thoughts after the disaster	Testimonies after the disaster	I think that most people had a major change after the earthquake. Including my own. I just can’t explain.
Thoughts after the disaster	Recalling the disaster	We seem to have forgotten about that disaster, but I think it’s still somewhere in our hearts.