Yasuaki Yamashita would probably not be among us now if his mother had not hugged him and protected him with her body at the moment the atomic bomb exploded over the city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. This Japanese city, in the first days of August of that year, …
Two brothers named Totaro and Kazuma Nishikawa formed part of an important wave of Japanese fishermen who settled in Ensenada in the early 1930s. Twenty years before, however, the first Japanese fishermen had already arrived in Baja California, when the Porfirio Díaz administration granted Aurelio Sandoval a fishing permit that …
Julio Mizzumi Guerrero Kojima is a folk musician and preschool teacher of Nikkei origin, who was born in a small village in Veracruz on the shores of the Papaloapan River, also known as “river of the butterflies,” in 1970. The village of Otatitlán (which means “place of the bamboo” in …
The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 didn't just spark a war between the United States and Japan. Beginning on that day, communities of Japanese immigrants who had settled in several countries in America also became part of the conflict and hostilities.
In 1897, Japanese workers began to arrive in Mexico as part of the friendship agreement that was signed in 1888 between both governments. At first, farmers arrived in Chiapas, workers in the mines of Coahuila and Chihuahua, day laborers in Veracruz, and fishermen in the port of Ensenada in Baja …
One of the most popular snacks in Mexico is “Japanese peanuts”. This product--which consists of peanuts with a coating made of toasted wheat flour and soy sauce--isn’t originally from Japan. It was actually invented by Yoshigei Nakatani, a Japanese immigrant who arrived in Mexico in 1932.
Kenichi Muray was one of the hundreds of thousands of poor emigrants who sought a better future in America. Muray's story, like that of all immigrants, is very interesting in itself. Kenichi came from Shiga prefecture and arrived in Mexico in 1923 at the age of 22. She spent the …
The former Temixco Hacienda is home to one of Mexico’s best-known and popular water parks. The vestiges of the hacienda that still remain—including the parish church and extensive gardens—lend a particular beauty to the place. Temixco (a Náhuatl word that roughly translates to “where the rock of feline is”) is …
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