Fernando Nakasone Nozoe
Fernando Nakasone Nozoe is an engineer, Goodwill Ambassador of Okinawa and a prominent member of the Japanese Peruvian community. He has been president of the Aopcoop Savings and Credit Cooperative (1999 – 2009), president of Peru Nishihara Chojinkai, Vice President of the Okinawan Association of Peru and member of the board of directors of the Peruvian Japanese Association and the Centenario Clinic.
Last updated June 2022
Stories from This Author
The first Nisei and Okinawa
June 29, 2022 • Fernando Nakasone Nozoe
I write this article in memory and recognition of all the Nisei who had to travel from a very young age, more than 80 years ago to Okinawa. Remember all the journey they had to go through, many times a sad life, far from their parents and siblings, but a generation that moved forward and never forgot Peru from their new home. The decade of the 1930s was passing, more than 25 years had passed since the arrival of the …
