Observing Nikkei journalists
Nikkei journalists from different generations tell us about their experience as professionals in this field, their reflections on Nikkei identity and their perspectives on new generations of Japanese descendants.
Stories from this series
Juan Carlos Fangacio Arakaki: Nikkei through cultural transfusion
Aug. 14, 2019 • 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 when he was a child, he felt what many Nikkei feel when they are in Japan: that they are not much like the Japanese, despite having the same surnames. In …
Arturo Goga: from the technological hobby to the digital profession
July 3, 2019 • 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 everyone can have in the digital age. His interest began in the years of Atari and the new computers with CD rom readers, and has continued until the era of …
Alfredo Oshiro: illustrated journalism
June 6, 2019 • 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 years old, giving the information the color of the schematic illustration. The newspapers El Sol and El Comercio were the pioneers in this work, which has an artistic side that …
Doris Moromisato: parole
May 3, 2019 • 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 earn a name in the world of Peruvian literature through poetry, but she has struggled not to be pigeonholed into that facet that began in 1988 with the collection of …
Alfredo Kato: In the eyes of a Nikkei journalist
April 10, 2019 • 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 in entertainment journalism, which now in Peru seems inconsequential, as does the topic it addresses. Talking to him about journalism, his career, and the Nikkei community seems like a way …
