Japantown there... and here

Victor Nishio Yasuoka — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:30:03 -0700

Hello.

Here in Perú we don´t have Japantown. Being the 2nd. Nikkei community en South America, I think is strange... that could be result of the war or maybe of the idiosincracy of the country.

Seeing what you have posted, is motivating to try to make it here, too (in a long term, of course). We have the japanese week in october or november, centered in shows and activities and one sunday of traditional foods. We don´t have street shows as the chinese does in their new year celebration in the first months of the year.

Could you, please, write about the "profile" of the Nikkei community there, that is, size, number of institutions and other information to help me understand you all, and compare with us?

Thank you.

Victor Nishio Yasuoka
Advertiser, Visual Artist, Prensa Nikkei Columnist
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Lima, Perú

My Nisei Week, Our Nisei Week

editor — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:21:39 -0700

My Nisei Week, Our Nisei Week

By Bobby Okinaka

Saturday, August 16

On Saturday morning I arrived early at the Japanese American National Museum. Yonezawa-san was already there. He is the president of the Miyagi Kenjinkai. Miyagi Prefecture is famous throughout Japan for the Tanabata Festival in Sendai. On the seventh day of the seventh month, the streets of Sendai are lined with colorful decorations called fukinagashi. Yonezawa-san and the Miyagi Kenjinkai made five fukinagashi that we were going to use to decorate the central hall of the museum. The Kenjinkai boss was especially excited to share a part of his culture with the Nisei Week festival-goers.

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Japantown there... and here

My Nisei Week, Our Nisei Week

My Nisei Week, Our Nisei Week