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Hello, again.Your commment

Victor Nishio Yasuoka — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:18:03 -0700

Hello, again.

Your commment is true, not pessimistic. We must know the problem to create a solution and then execute it.

Thinking that way, as you do, will help to change ourselves and our surroundings... there is where we should start the change to those created (artificial) problems we owe freely.

Our energy, will and work should be in high frecuency all the time, no matter what other say.

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utopia

vkm — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:48:21 -0700

Thanks for your comments! I'm glad that you enjoyed my article.

In these tough times, it's nice to dream about a better world where things should be as they should be. I think our world has fallen victim to our need for instant gratification and self satisfaction. We're not willing to wait for or support people with real solutions, because the truth is that the only real solutions are long-term ones. These problems that plague our society didn't magically appear one day, they've been developing over time, compounding over each other. Until we're willing to accept that there is no magic cure, no pill to swallow that will instantly cure all our society's ills, we can't expect that things will really change for the better.

Sorry if my comments seem pessimistic...it's been a tough day...Tonight I wallow...tomorrow I will start anew and try to make a difference.

Hola, Tilsa. Muy interesante

Victor Nishio Yasuoka — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:09:35 -0700

Hola, Tilsa.

Muy interesante tu investigación.

Surge una curiosidad de lo leído: ¿Cuál será el fin de la Yuta mientras que la colectividad se va desligando de sus raíces y se va mimetizando y mediatizando cada año que pasa, más rápidamente? ¿Se quedarán sin trabajo, esto es, ingresos, a pesar de tener la capacidad de manejar esas energías y de poderlas transmitir a su descendencia?

Estamos en 6ta. generación y algunos Nikkei ya no saben ni una palabra en japonés (yo sé pocas, soy 3ra.), mientras otros niegan todo lo oriental, aún teniendo el apellido japonés de sus padres, habiéndose casando con personas étnicamente diferentes pero legalmente iguales.

Victor.

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Sharing... the universe

Victor Nishio Yasuoka — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:54:09 -0700

I liked your post.

As I think, everything happens for something, which really means that everthing is connected (in detriment of those who believe, yes or yes, in free will... not that it is bad nor good, it is just a theory as is the caos, the destiny, and a lot of other things that influence our lives and decissions).

The good vibes are the Universe´s energies, as are the envy, the joy, the good wishes, greed, egoism, altruism, ...every -ism, because everything works in balance; and after this, we can philosophize without end.

I write this comment because I´m trying to understand, a decade ago, about life, god, religion, share, about ills of the humanity, pain and others, to understand me, my existence (I´m not existentialist but curious, and I feel a lot of things are incorrect even though, we continue to spread them, like bad habits in family, food, drinks, cigars, drugs, interaction with other, health, wars, etc).

So, acceptance is the most important actitude to survive emotionally and spiritually in our time (money is considered material wellness, so is to survive socially and fisically... regretably... and it -money- is not what we think is).

To accept is necessary to share, if we share, we evolve, we connect ourselves with everything, we construct a collective mind, which is the only end to live without violence of any kind.

Sounds idealistic and utopic but, after trying a lot of models (economic, politic, religious, social), we have no happines, which, yes, is undefined, but the very end of our acts.

Concluding, we should unlearn what we have been teached.

Victor.

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Hello, Simone. Very

Victor Nishio Yasuoka — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:24:31 -0700

Hello, Simone.

Very interesting flavor-tour. My wife and I sometimes have time to do something like that, here in Lima, Perú, tasting a lot of tipical and fusion preparations.

The tipical peruvian food is, now, in the international sight, but the offer is only gourmet, not the real ancestral preparation we can have in some places around here.

The fusion is quite more interesting: andean preparation with european spices, japanese rolls with peruvian fish plate, and a lot of other mixtures of flavors and textures in the mouth.

So, my point is: if you have the oportunity to eat peruvian food, you will find exotic flavors (like "ají amarillo" or the lemon we have here), and better when you come to Lima, I could guide you to different food-points, big and small ones, to have plates I haven´t had anywhere else, not even Mexico (which is similar, culturally, to Perú).

Regards,
Victor.

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Lo que he escuchado sobre

Victor Nishio Yasuoka — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:14:10 -0700

Lo que he escuchado sobre las Yuta se remite únicamente a jóvenes Nikkei en reuniones informales (playa, cumpleaños, etc) con algo de alcohol y música en algún momento. Será que el ambiente se presta, como en película "joligudense", para contar lo que alguien les contó sobre las Yuta... esto es, que nada sé sobre ellas.

Resulta que la idea que tengo (tenía) es que son videntes, muy relacionadas con los muertos (porque pueden verlos) y también que son adivinas, pero jamás las habían bajado -en sus historias- a la lectura de cartas, hojas o granos, sino refiriéndose a un poder adivinatorio "tipo" reminiscencia o "chispazo del momento".

Después de la introducción leída (espero poder terminar de entender el tema en siguientes lecturas) resulta que son personas que tienen "conexión astral" o que manejan "energías universales", sin ser términos peyorativos como los medios nos mandan a creer; de ahí la frase "todo sucede por algo", que realmente significa "todo está conectado".

No entiendo el título.

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Regarding your first

Victor Nishio Yasuoka — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:55:47 -0700

Regarding your first questions, I think love is not blind, nor the love we feel as living creatures nor the Love in itself... we are the ones who are blinded by many reasons.

About your genes (and everyone´s) in a far place, I think it should be seen as a strong conection (universal energy) not as a child somewhere as the media tells us to think. Is an experience of life -giving life- so is good to strengthen it and see it as part of our "everything happens for a reason" which means "we are all connected" (not destiny or azar or similar stereotipes).

I think races don´t exist but genetical differences. The matter of matching with other like us in appeareance, is just social, so it´s traditions and preconditioned behavior.

About reproduction, what we want for our children is the same the mass media want for them... so is doubtable.

I´m peruvian, both last names Nikkei, living with a no Nikkei woman. I thing is a good way to tell everybody that there are more variables and experiences than those told by grandparents to see and to have, and to learn a lot more than what´s left to us from the inmigrants and their "culture" of Japan.

The culture should be one, and named knowledge, and be free to everyone... but, as the health is a business so is the education; so, every word in education plans (protocolized) around the world is carefully guided to an objective -common to all corporations-: money and power to control. That, between others, is why the world is as we know it, that´s a consecuence of globalization... but we, writing here, is another consecuence of the same fenomenom, but positive. It´s a matter of possitive attitude to change ourselves to, then, see how changes all around us.

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tsukemono

vkm — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:12:57 -0700

Hi Simone!

Thanks for sharing your culinary adventures in New York! I especially liked the part about the pickle festival. Very interesting that there would be a lack of representation on the tsukemono front given that the recipe in the brochure included miso.

Oh, momo! I loved your post

viridescent4 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:24:39 -0700

Oh, momo! I loved your post almost as much as I love food. So many of my best memories involve eating ... with you! Thank you for the recap of the wonderful cuisine found in New York City. I can't wait to get back this winter and have some lovely knishes. Maybe I'll bring you back some Japanese pickles for your very own!

Pacific Citizen article about Michelle & Carly's project

vkm — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:50:13 -0700

The Pacific Citizen interviewed the two girls and just published an article in their publication which is also available online:

Two Teens Embark On Paper Crane Peace Memorial Project
Michelle Reed and Carly Gutzmann, both 14, plan to fold and collect 120,313 paper cranes - one for each internee imprisoned during WWII.
By Caroline Aoyagi-Stom, Executive Editor
Published September 19, 2008

Read the article >>

audio from the session available online

vkm — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:14:00 -0700

The audio recording from the session that Louis Fiset was on at the Whose America? Who's American National Conference in Denver, CO is available online:

janm.org/projects/ec/conference/events/43/

Just click on the link listed under "Media".

Información

Victor Nishio Yasuoka — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:38:24 -0700

Buenos días, Emi.

He leído todos sus artículos publicados en DiscoverNikkei; se destacan por el detalle en los datos y por la sensibilidad y delicadeza con que se expresa en cada escrito.

Soy publicista pero en este momento estoy concentrado en escribir. Un tema que me sugirieron, muy interesante a mi parecer, es "Japantown", que no existe aquí, en el Perú. Sí hay un barrio chino.

Después de 100 años de nuestra inmigración, como Nikkei, me resulta extraño que no haya este tipo de inquietudes entre los adultos mayores y la generación que los sucede. Tenemos asociaciones y locales, centros deportivos y culturales pero no un lugar o un conjunto de ellos, donde los no-Nikkei puedan ir a buscar información de todo tipo (comida, música, danzas, historia...) en su misma ciudad.

Tengo 31, y hasta el momento no he escuchado, en conversaciones rutinarias, ni en noticias en los diarios Nikkei o alguna otra publicación de la colectividad, el tema del barrio japonés, ni en concepto.

Existen varios en EE.UU. y en países latinoamericanos, pero aquí no encuentro información al respecto.

¿Sería tan amable de enviarme (de ser posible, sin molestias) ya sea información o la ubicación en internet, del tema? Así tendré una base sobre la cual analizar el porqué no tenemos aquí -en Lima- algo similar y también porqué nadie se preocupa por afirmar la identidad Nikkei cuando esta se está perdiendo, ya que no es suficiente hacerlo a través de encabezados de noticias o de urgir la participación de la juventud en la parte administrativa, sino de crear un lazo y luego un compromiso, que en las generaciones de hoy, ya no se ve casi para ninguna cosa sino la cuestión mediática y de moda, ambas banales y torcidas a coveniencia de pocos.

Gracias,
Victor.

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frame 1

jkatagi — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:18:22 -0700

I don't know why. The woman in frame one reminds me of JN. No?

good to see you!

jkatagi — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:19:18 -0700

I finally got my DN account back up to speed. Glancing through the articles, I was surprised to see you here! Good job! 2 eprops! heh.

Very nice comments about

tdk — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:03:46 -0700

Very nice comments about your experience. Glad you found it worthwhile.