We are already going through the two years of the pandemic and those first weeks of confinement, when people applauded the health workers from their homes for their extraordinary work and naively said that from this disastrous experience we would emerge better people, more united and supportive, They seem like …
He was just a child, but he remembers it as if he were a witness again. From a window on the second floor of his house in Lima, Víctor Makino watched criminals break into businesses and homes of Japanese families to steal their belongings. It was in May 1940, more …
Sueko Noda, a 93-year-old Nisei, remembers that during the looting of Japanese homes and businesses in May 1940, her family was saved from the hordes instigated by the anti-Japanese sentiment of the time thanks to some Peruvian neighbors “such good people who defended us.” ”. Carlos Saito, 80, relates that …
On July 28, 2021, Peru celebrated 200 years of existence as an independent country. In 1976, the United States celebrated its bicentennial with festivities enhanced by the visit of Queen Elizabeth II, with fireworks and parades. The commemoration in Peru, with around 200 thousand people dead from Covid-19 and a …
The word onigiri , even to those familiar with Japanese food, is catchy. It has magnet, hook. It was the name that the communicator Gerardo Higa Arakaki chose to baptize an online university venture that spread manga and anime in Peru in the 2000s. That playful bet of youth, Onigiri …
In addition to the pain of losing a loved one, there is also confusion if the death was unexpected and you are not prepared to deal with the situation. What procedures must be followed, who to notify first? The disorientation is accentuated in this situation marked by the coronavirus, plagued …
The coronavirus pandemic is a watershed in the history of humanity. When we get older, hopefully, we will remember 2020-21 as the years when our lives changed forever. Although we are not yet free from the pandemic and, therefore, we lack the perspective to fully measure the impact of the …
A year ago, one of the most rigorous quarantines in the world was imposed in Peru to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. It has been a painful and terrible year for a country decimated by the pandemic and morally devastated by a scandal that involved a former president …
In December, after almost nine months, I met up with several friends on two occasions, both in open spaces, outdoors (one of them in a park). It was strange, especially because of the greetings, without hugs as is customary with dear and old friends, replaced by a shy pat on …
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