Javier García Wong-Kit
@JaviernestoJavier García Wong-Kit is a journalist, professor, and director of Otros Tiempos magazine. Author of Tentaciones narrativas (Redactum, 2014) and De mis cuarenta (ebook, 2021), he writes for Kaikan, the magazine of the Japanese Peruvian Association.
Updated April 2022
Stories from This Author
Christmas Memories of the Nikkei
Dec. 25, 2015 • Javier García Wong-Kit
Our memories are filled with sad and happy landscapes that speak to each other. I asked some Nikkei to share their childhood memories, Christmas holiday customs, and family traditions. Members of the “Road to Happiness” painting workshop, a program of the Ryoichi Jinnai Recreational Center for the Elderly which is part of the Japanese-Peruvian Association, spent some time in the days before Christmas to share their memories over coffee and sweetbread. Naoko Yamauchi: “There is a lot of happiness in …
The culture and pleasure of sake
Dec. 11, 2015 • Javier García Wong-Kit
A bottle can contain an ancient tradition to take to any corner of the planet. Sake, the emblematic Japanese drink (in fact, its name means that: alcoholic drink, a generic that will later show its variants), has traveled the world captivating those who have discovered something unexpected in it. Neither a powerful brandy like vodka nor an invasive flavor like that of an anise liqueur. The sake is smooth, without being sweet, delicate and very aromatic, with sweet and floral …
The great art of small trees
Nov. 6, 2015 • Javier García Wong-Kit
“A bonsai is an artistic replica of a miniature tree.” The definition is not in a gardening or Japanese culture book, but in the novel “Bonsai”, by the Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra, a story of love and obsession with writing, which was also his first foray into the narrative of this young writer. . Luis Takehara's love story for bonsai began 18 years ago. It was the nineties and Peru's economy was not one of the best. Luis's fishing business …
Carlos Chinen: An architect with stories to tell
Oct. 2, 2015 • Javier García Wong-Kit
His full name is Carlos Chinen Kanashiro. Made in Peru, by Nikkei parents, model 1956, architect by profession. This is his story to put together, from his beginnings in the career that has led him to design several supermarkets and shopping centers in Lima and other regions of the country, to his hobby for modeling that has made him the largest collector and to have a museum. which will soon have its second headquarters. He receives me in his two-story …
Carlos Yushimito: The germs of a philosophical writing
Aug. 26, 2015 • Javier García Wong-Kit
The work of the Peruvian writer Carlos Yushimito Valle (Lima, 1977) is as peculiar as it is captivating and thoughtful, full of strange characters, fantastic stories and situations in which a narrative style comes to light that has elevated him since his early years, when his Stories began to appear in university magazines, anthologies of young storytellers and artisanal or digital publications. Since then, it has captivated editors from Peru, Argentina, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Spain and the United States; including …
Peru Shimpo: stories from the dean of the Nikkei press
July 31, 2015 • Javier García Wong-Kit
He has just turned 65 and is so young and active that it could be said that this is one of his best times. The newspaper Perú Shimpo celebrated its anniversary on July 1 without any fuss, doing what its staff likes most: serious journalism about Nikkei current affairs, the activities of this community, and the dissemination of the culture and values that are part of it. of your identity; silently facing the modern times of digital communication with very …
Carlos Runcie Tanaka, Pieces of art and life
June 25, 2015 • Javier García Wong-Kit
All art is made of life, but not all life is made of art. The Peruvian Carlos Runcie Tanaka 1 (Lima, 1958) has managed to assemble in a single piece the real and the imagined, the human and the divine, the body and the spirit, in a work that began in the eighties, when he decided to renounce the Philosophy degree to devote himself, along with clay and fire, to ceramics. And it hasn't been easy. His first teachers were …
Pauchi Sasaki: art and violin dialogues
May 21, 2015 • Javier García Wong-Kit
His most recurring biography says that he is a classically trained violinist, that he began his studies at the age of five and that he has released two albums as a soloist (“YUYU” in 2007 and “koPpu” in 2011), but to better understand the work he The Peruvian Pauchi Sasaki is dedicated to it. It is necessary to know what her academic training was: Communication Sciences and Arts at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He studied this career to …
The new blood of Peruvian Nikkei cuisine
April 17, 2015 • Javier García Wong-Kit
There are many great masters of Peruvian cuisine: Teresa Izquierdo, Javier Wong, Adolfo Perret, Gloria Hinostroza, Blanca Chávez and Héctor Solís are some names, among which there are two of Japanese origin, which cannot be missed: Humberto Sato and Toshiro Konishi . With more than 50 years dedicated to this profession, they are part of the Japanese influence that has gained new strength in recent years with young chefs who have taken it upon themselves to preserve and renew their …
Tilsa Tsuchiya. Experiences, anecdotes and intimacies of the mythical Nikkei painter
Feb. 20, 2015 • Javier García Wong-Kit , Asociación Peruano Japonesa
30 years after her death, three artist friends of the Peruvian painter Tilsa Tsuchiya share their memories, full of endearing moments that reveal the character and sensitivity of an inspiring woman who was as selfless as she was passionate. To talk about the work of Tilsa Tsuchiya (Supe, Barranca-Perú 1928) is to refer to eroticism, mythology, oriental philosophy, minimalist technique and the appearance of extraordinary beings. To talk about Tilsa Tsuchiya Castillo, and to do so with some of her …
