Nikkei disappeared in Argentina: “17 stories kept in memory”
During the time of the Argentine military dictatorship thousands of Argentines disappeared. Nikkeis who fought for an ideal also disappeared. There were 17 Nikkeis, 17 stories kept in memory. The journalist Andres Asato, who will investigate the issue together with the Nikkei relatives, tells us these stories.
Stories from this series
The 17 missing members of the Japanese community (Part II) — The “Aparecidos” Japanese from the Santa Lucía school
Aug. 15, 2016 • Juan Andrés Asato
Read part I >> The faces of Seikichi Gushiken and María Arasaki in front of the family altar ( butsudan ) after lighting an incense next to the photo of the “appeared” son, Carlos Horacio, is one of the most powerful images of the documentary Silencio roto , which tells the story of the descendants of Japanese who disappeared during the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). Their looks summarize that long pilgrimage along an unexpected, winding and unknown path …
The 17 missing members of the Japanese community (Part I): Making history visible
July 15, 2016 • Juan Andrés Asato
Saying 17 out of 30,000 may be an insignificant number. But it is not if what we are talking about are missing people, in a political context like that of the 70s in Argentina when first the actions of parapolice groups in democratic times and then the military dictatorship carried out an extermination plan that had its most violent form of institutionalized repression in the forced disappearance of people. What were they looking for? People who thought differently and this …