Entrevistas

1. Grandfather migrating to Colombia

2. Family having to hide guns during World War II in Colombia

3. Stories of Grandfather at a concentration camp in Fusagasuga

4. Keirokai, the biggest celebration in the Cali Nikkei community

5. Food preparations for Keirokai

6. Japanese reputation in Colombia

7. Her definition of Nikkei

8. Identification as Colombian, feeling closer to JA than Japanese

9. Interracial marriage trends

10. Her grandfather in a concentration camp in Fusagasuga (Spanish)

11. Japanese were treated with dignity during WWII (Spanish)

Teisher,Monica

(n.1974) Colombiana japonesa que atualmente reside nos Estados Unidos

Food preparations for Keirokai

They have months planning of it, and they say to the smallest details who's going to decorate the room, and for example, they serve an ozoni, or some soup. I think maybe it's miso, maybe it's just miso but it has what they call a mitsuba that they put a little leaf that has the three petals, there are three leaves, and they have to be tied in a ribbon. And so before... I think it needs to be planted, or trimmed, I don't know 15 days before so when the leaves are the right size to be harvested, and served in the soup.

So stuff like that logistically, they've been working about who's buying the shiitake that goes in the stew, or the seaweed for the wraps, whatever it is they work months, and they have a spreadsheet already, and the list of tasks, and everything. But that is usually organized, the food is cooked by the fujin-bu, it's a group of females. And that's what they pride themselves that they're serving them food that specially all Japanese, or as Japanese as we can make it with whatever we have available in Colombia.

Colômbia comunidades eventos comida colombianos japoneses Keiro (organização)

Data: September 22, 2019

Localização Geográfica: California, US

Entrevistado: Yoko Nishimura

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevistados

Monica Teisher nasceu em Cali, Colômbia, em 1974, pai Issei e mãe Nissei. Ela e sua grande família extendida eram ativas na comunidade japonesa de Cali, a maior da Colômbia. Ela se mudou para os Estados Unidos depois de se casar com um cidadão americano de descendência judaica do Leste Europeu. Eles e suas filhas passam férias na Colômbia, participando de eventos comunitários. (Maio de 2020)