Sergio Hernández Galindo
@sergiohernandezSergio Hernández Galindo is a graduate of Colegio de México, where he majored in Japanese studies. He has published numerous articles and books about Japanese emigration to Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America.
His most recent book, Los que vinieron de Nagano. Una migración japonesa a México (Those who came from Nagano: A Japanese migration to Mexico, 2015) tells the stories of emigrants from that prefecture before and after the war. In his well-known book, La guerra contra los japoneses en México. Kiso Tsuru y Masao Imuro, migrantes vigilados (The war against Japanese people in Mexico: Kiso Tsuro and Masao Imuro, migrants under surveillance), he explained the consequences of conflict between the United States and Japan for the Japanese community decades before the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
He has taught classes and led conferences on this topic at universities in Italy, Chile, Peru, and Argentina as well as Japan, where he was part of the group of foreign specialists in the Kanagawa Prefecture and a fellow of the Japan Foundation, affiliated with Yokohama National University. He is currently a professor and researcher with the Historical Studies Unit of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History.
Updated April 2016
Stories from This Author
メキシコにある日本人末裔の学校－実を結んだ努力ー
Dec. 24, 2009 • Sergio Hernández Galindo
日本メキシコ学院（リセオ）はメキシコ市で最も知られている学校の一つだ。よく知られているように、この学校の建設には、日系コロニアの多くの方々による努力と出資、またメキシコ及び日本政府の援助により実現され、1977年に開校した。リセオは日系人子弟や日本から赴任してくる日本人の子弟だけでなく、日本文化の道徳や価値に基づく質の高い教育を受けたいと望むメキシコ人子弟も受け入れた。 日本メキシコ学院の名声は広く知られているが、この学院は数10年前の伝統を受け継いでいるのではなく、19…
