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The story of German Chinen Murata (Lima, 1967) can be told as if it were a comic strip. The synopsi…

Javier García Wong-Kit • July 24, 2023

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“Nikkei postcards”: generational correspondence

It began as a play and then became an intergenerational manifesto through the “Nikkei Letters of th…

Javier García Wong-Kit • June 2, 2023

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Ginyu Igei: the teacher, the lighthouse

Ginyu Igei arrived in Peru with the halo of sensei. A teacher in his native Okinawa, the 26-year-o…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • May 18, 2023

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Kizuna 2020: Nikkei Kindness and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Young artists in the new virtuality - Part 2

Read part 1 >> An empty wall is endless possibilities. This is how the plastic artist and cul…

Javier García Wong-Kit • March 5, 2021

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Kizuna 2020: Nikkei Kindness and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Young artists in the new virtuality – Part 1

2020 has been an especially hard year for artists and other cultural protagonists in Peru. To the c…

Javier García Wong-Kit • Jan. 28, 2021

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Kizuna 2020: Nikkei Kindness and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Peru Ganbare

On March 6, the first case of coronavirus was confirmed in Peru. 9 days later, the national governm…

Enrique Higa Sakuda • Sept. 2, 2020

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Diana Okuma: “Doing Nikkei has helped me find my way”

Last year, the illustrator Diana Okuma Oshiro won the third call for editorial projects organized …

Marjorie Reymundo Conde +1 • June 12, 2019

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The Nikkei of Latin America and Latino Nikkei

100th Anniversary of the Japanese Peruvian Association and the 19th COPANI Lima

The 19th Pan-American Japanese Convention (COPANI - Convención Panamericana Nikkei) was held in Lim…

Alberto J. Matsumoto • May 4, 2018

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Personal reflection on my first COPANI experience, at COPANI Lima 2017

Held every two years since 1981, COPANI (Convención Panamericana Nikkei, or Pan-American Nik…

Asuka Anne Nagase • Dec. 27, 2017

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Discovering the Shimabukuro

In 1956, at the age of 56, Seitoku Shimabukuro, overwhelmed by debt, decided to migrate to the Peru…

Enrique Higa Sakuda +1 • Aug. 7, 2017

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German Chinen Murata: The secret artist

“Nikkei postcards”: generational correspondence

Ginyu Igei: the teacher, the lighthouse

Young artists in the new virtuality - Part 2

Young artists in the new virtuality – Part 1

Peru Ganbare

Diana Okuma: “Doing Nikkei has helped me find my way”

100th Anniversary of the Japanese Peruvian Association and the 19th COPANI Lima

Personal reflection on my first COPANI experience, at COPANI Lima 2017

Discovering the Shimabukuro