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Javier Takara (not his real name) is a Nikkei Sansei of Okinawan ancestry who was born in Lima in 1965. His paternal grandparents were from Kumejima and his maternal grandparents were from Itoman. In 1989, he went to Japan as a dekasegi. He currently lives in the city of Zama, in Kanagawa Prefecture. Visit his blog here.