The first 790 Japanese who arrived in Peru in 1899 to work on coastal haciendas were covered by four-year contracts. None of them, nor the thousands of hires who arrived later, had the intention of putting down roots in Peru. If everything had gone according to plan, in 1969—70 years …
In 1906, immigrants from Okinawa arrived in Peru for the first time. Four years later, they formed what is now the Okinawan Association of Peru (AOP). The coronavirus pandemic has ruined the possibility of celebrating the 110th anniversary as it deserves. That does not mean, however, that its managers and …
On March 6, the first case of coronavirus was confirmed in Peru. 9 days later, the national government established a total quarantine that, among other measures, closed the country's borders and prevented leaving home except for essential activities such as buying food. The measure came into force on March 16 …
The Second World War was a disaster for the Japanese community living in Peru. In addition to the deportation to the United States of almost 1,800 people, it led to the closure of schools and institutions, among other measures implemented by the Peruvian government—aligned with that of the United States—against …
2019 is the second best year of Marcela Castillo Tokumori's sports career. At the Pan American Games in Lima he won the silver medal in the poomsae modality in taekwondo. If the Games became a great national holiday, it was thanks to people like her. His best year was 2016. …
In Spain, around 240 thousand cases of people infected with coronavirus have been registered. One of them is the Peruvian and former dekasegi Gabriel Ueda Tsuboyama, who has lived in the European country for more than 15 years. Luckily, it is also one of the approximately 150,000 recovered so far. …
“If you want to know something about the family, ask me. Take advantage,” my uncle, the bullfighter and journalist Mitsuya Higa (1932-2020), told me several years ago. He did it laughing, aware that he was in the last part of his life, with his head still full of memories and …
“ Komorebi ” means “sunlight filtering through the leaves of trees.” It was the word chosen by five Nikkei artists—Sachiko Kobayashi, Meche Tomotaki, Tamie Tokuda, Daniela Tokashiki and Nori Kobayashi—to title a group exhibition at the Peruvian Japanese Cultural Center in which they addressed their ethnic identity and their relationship …
In the late 1960s, Peru was governed by a left-wing military dictatorship that had closed the Peruvian economy to the world and nationalized industries. The Nikkei, meanwhile, formed a thriving community that little by little was moving forward after the traumatic years of World War II and the difficult post-war …
In 1994, Augusto Higa published Japan does not give two opportunities , a book about his experience as a dekasegi at the beginning of the decade. It was the stark testimony of a Nisei who in the country of his parents crashes against his status as a gaijin, of a …
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