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Nikkei Chronicles #8—Nikkei Heroes: Trailblazers, Role Models, and Inspirations
My hero, Don Gerardo Maruy Takayama
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I was reading the Discover Nikkei call, in Crónicas Nikkeis, it was about Nikkei heroes, the first thing that came to mind was the image of Don Gerardo Maruy Takayama, my admiration for him made me write an article about him on my blog . I acquired this affection from …
Nikkei Chronicles #7—Nikkei Roots: Digging into Our Cultural Heritage
“Hey, Chinese.” I am not Chinese
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My family lived in Barrios Altos, a populous neighborhood in Lima, Peru. We liked being in the store as children, we had a warehouse, contact with people was little, we only thought about playing, waiting for mom to get free and having her attention, we did not have the notion …
Nikkei Chronicles #7—Nikkei Roots: Digging into Our Cultural Heritage
I am Nikkei
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On October 22, 2017, a census was carried out in Peru. Aside from the data that was collected for the first time so that Peruvians could “self-identify,” it served to define us in terms of our ethnic identity. While it is true, we are all Peruvians, we will be able …
Charo Unten de Musso - One voice
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The year was 1989, years in which we began to feel the dekasegui phenomenon, there was no cable, there was no internet, my parents liked Enka music, my older sister too, the link we had with Japan was the videos. on VHS that they lent you, bought or could get …
International Nikkei Day - June 20, 2018
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A while back I saw in a Nikkei related facebook page that two young men, Andrés Higa from Argentina and Tadashi Andrés Ysa Urbina from Peru, had started a project. They lived in Okinawa and wanted to reclaim their roots, which for them meant Uchinanchu, and to be known and recognized …
Denisse Shashiki: “I will be back”
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Denisse Shashiki is a Peruvian Nikkei who began in the artistic environment as a singer. She had a break for a few years but she returned with great force, she surprised us by singing in Japanese the very Lima-based La Flor de la Canela , for this she had the …
The Teruya Orchestra, a great unforgettable party
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Several years ago I heard people commenting about “The Teruya Orchestra” and saw that they animated many events, especially in our community in Lima, Peru. It caught my attention because of the last name Teruya, my second last name is that, many told me that that orchestra belonged to my …
The last goodbye - Part 2
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Read part 1 >> Now that I review the photos where my mother appears and I see that first time she entered the clinic, where she was very bad (that was the moment she was leaving and God gave us an extension), she is seen with a different face, with …
The last goodbye - Part 1
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When my mother passed away, I spent my time thinking about her, about what I did or didn't do, about the things that were left in "whatever," so I decided that a way to vent all that was inside me, that I didn't say , which I didn't tell, which …
My dad from winemaker to shirt salesman
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To tell this story, I have to go back to when my grandparents came from Japan, specifically from Okinawa, like most, they came to work in agriculture, they had their children, one of them my father, who, like his brothers, from a or otherwise they worked in the field, at …