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The interest toward Japan held by Argentine youth (Japanese)

(Japanese) For the adult class, the average age of the class has become much younger over the years. Before, the youngest students were about 18 or 19 years old, but now there are several students who are just 13 or 14 years old. For those students, since they’re still young, their level of interest in Japan seems to stem from general curiosity… they just find it sort of fun, like reading manga comics and thinking, “So this is what Japan is like...”


Date: 2006

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Interviewer: Takeshi Nishimura, Ricardo Hokama

Contributed by: Centro Nikkei Argentino

Interviewee Bio

Masaki Tamashio was born in Okinawa. In the summer of his 3rd year in college, he took his first vacation abroad in Argentina, where a relative lived. He returned for a visit upon graduation, and stumbled upon a job as a Japanese teacher by chance. Currently he works as the Vice-principal of the Japanese class at Centro Nikkei Argentino. (2006)