Entrevistas

1. General reasons why people left Japan for Peru

2. Great grandfather Asato was a sumo wrestler

3. Grandfather loved to tell her stories of her great-grandfather Arakaki

4. Prosecution of Japanese Peruvians during the war

5. Where parents went to school in Peru

6. Parents leaving Peru to move to California

7. Reflections on childhood

8. Okinawan cultural appreciation

9. Prejudice against Okinawans from mainland folks

10. Okinawan Americans

11. Parents identification as Peruvian Okinawan

12. On Nikkei identity

13. Japanese values that she aligns with

14. American values she aligns with

15. Working together in Okinawa using three languages

Yamashiro,Michelle

Okinawense estadounidense cuyos padres son de Perú.

Prosecution of Japanese Peruvians during the war

The only people that were really targeted were folks who were in a community leader…similar to here…community leader powers who were educated; scholars, or who had some sort of power in either the business world or the community world. And I think besides my great-grandpa Arakaki, the other folks were able to lie low pretty well. I have heard of a story though from a group where there was a Japanese Peruvian person working in the…was it…in some government office, I don’t know if it was like an ambassador’s office or something like that, but he got a list of Japanese Peruvian folks who were supposed to be kidnapped and taken to the United States, and he was sort of like a “Schindler’s List” and he would take some of these folks and just sort of try to hide them as best as possible or try to find a way to make sure that they escaped or that they got fake IDs or fake whatever identification in order to stay. So I have heard stories like that.

peruanos japoneses okinawenses Perú Segunda Guerra Mundial

Fecha: August 30, 2018

Zona: California, US

Entrevista: Sharon Yamato

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevista

Creció en Gardena, California. Sus padres se mudaron a los Estados Unidos desde Lima, Perú, donde crecieron en la comunidad peruana japonesa y okinawense. Gracias a este ambiente diverso, estuvo expuesta a una mezcla de diferentes tradiciones culturales. Ella está involucrada con la Asociación de América de Okinawa y ha visitado Okinawa y Perú.

Recibió sus credenciales de enseñanza, pero cuando recibió una oportunidad en el Instituto Cultural Japonés del Valle de Gardena (ICJVG), decidió hacer trabajos sin ánimo de lucro y ahora es voluntaria en ICJVG y la Asociación de Okinawa de América. (Agosto 2018)