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Young Nikkei Cooker
Warike Nikkei: a popular secret
Javier García Wong-Kit, Asociación Peruano Japonesa
Cooking has something of a mystery when it surprises with peculiar recipes that seek to be inimitable. Although their objective is to reach a large audience, in Peru huariques have become famous, those simple restaurants that have achieved mastery in a dish for which people visit them even if they …
Young Nikkei Cooker
Andrés Hamamoto: Nikkei cooking over hot coals
Javier García Wong-Kit
Many descendants of Japanese grew up in Peru with a mixture of cuisines at home: the Creole native to the country and the Japanese that their ancestors shared without making any further distinction between the origins of both. Nikkei in gastronomy is just that: the mixture of both cultures in …
Young Nikkei Cooker
Masaki Uyema: an adventurer of Nikkei cuisine
Javier García Wong-Kit
The career of a chef usually has several routes that make their training experience an adventure. In 2002, Gastón Acurio, the most famous Peruvian chef, started a television program that charted a path for many young people who wanted to study cooking. The show was called Culinary Adventure and it …
Nikkei Chronicles #8—Nikkei Heroes: Trailblazers, Role Models, and Inspirations
Planet Watanabe: Influences of a Nikkei poet
Javier García Wong-Kit
Peruvian poetry has produced great names (César Vallejo, César Moro, José Santos Chocano, Blanca Varela and more signatures) among whom is, without a doubt, the Nikkei writer José Watanabe Varas (Laredo, 1945), whose work has achieved influence different creators through their poems, theater, film scripts and children's literature, among other …
Observing Nikkei journalists
Juan Carlos Fangacio Arakaki: Nikkei through cultural transfusion
Javier García Wong-Kit
Many times we think that identity is something we see in the mirror. The Peruvian journalist Juan Carlos Fangacio Arakaki (Lima, 1988) says that he looks Palestinian because of his long beard and long hair. When he traveled to Japan to visit his mother, who went to work in Nagahama …
Observing Nikkei journalists
Arturo Goga: from the technological hobby to the digital profession
Javier García Wong-Kit
On Google, the name Arturo Goga returns 279 thousand results and they all have to do with a 36-year-old Peruvian Nikkei communicator, who began a hobby for technology when he was a child, and which he has turned into a successful blog and a full-time job. , achievements that not …
Observing Nikkei journalists
Alfredo Oshiro: illustrated journalism
Javier García Wong-Kit
Not long ago, journalism was the simplified task of writing and photographing what reporters knew when visiting the scene. Radio and television were the first technological media to transfer the news to their platforms and the press made a great innovation with infographics, which in Peru are less than 30 …
Observing Nikkei journalists
Doris Moromisato: parole
Javier García Wong-Kit
There is no word that serves to define Doris Moromisato Miasato (Chambala, 1962), one of the most unique writers and Nikkeis in Peru. Equipped with a voice capable of saying what she thinks, even when what she thinks is not the most popular or socially accepted, she has managed to …
Observing Nikkei journalists
Alfredo Kato: In the eyes of a Nikkei journalist
Javier García Wong-Kit
Journalists are spectators of reality, capable of deciphering it in a simple code that sheds light on what we understand as current events. Alfredo Kato Todio is 81 years old and has a look that, from a very young age, distinguished himself from others to make a name for himself …
Nomi Sasaki is inspired by Chabuca Granda to draw migration
Javier García Wong-Kit, Asociación Peruano Japonesa
Express yourself with words, with a song or a drawing. These three forms come together in the creative adventure of the visual artist Nomi Sasaki who, after several trips, hours listening to Chabuca Granda and meditating on the origin of people, migration and the connection with the land, created “En …