“This is how an artist must feel,” says César Tsuneshige while being photographed. It is a new experience for him to be the subject of a photo shoot. As a veterinarian, leader of the Nikkei community, and student of the history of Japanese immigration to Peru, he is used to …
Express yourself with words, with a song or a drawing. These three forms come together in the creative adventure of the visual artist Nomi Sasaki who, after several trips, hours listening to Chabuca Granda and meditating on the origin of people, migration and the connection with the land, created “En …
“Golden Kola”, “with a national flavor” and that “combines with everything”, this is Inca Kola. He was born on January 18, 1935, when Lima (Peru) celebrated its quadricentennial and since then it has captivated Peruvians and foreigners. The story begins with Joseph Robinson Lindley, an English immigrant who opened his …
When the Tribunal Arbitral du Sport (TAS) issued a 14-month sanction that prevented the captain of the Peruvian soccer team, Paolo Guerrero, from participating in the World Cup in Russia, the Japanese journalist Tasuku Okawa, whose Twitter account (@tas) coincides with the acronym of the sports organization, received an avalanche …
Carlos Kasuga Osaka is one of the most recognized Latin American Nikkei for his philanthropic work throughout the continent and for his successful business career in his native Mexico. An accident at the beginning of 2017, which his children presumed had a fatal outcome, led them to ask themselves various …
Practical, delicious and with varied flavors. This is how the charm of onigiri could be summarized, this traditional rice ball with different fillings that is “fast food” in Japan and that in recent years has been becoming more frequent on the menu and vocabulary of Peruvians. Although it is in …
Hachizo Nakamura, a Japanese immigrant who died at the age of 80, never forgot the help he received from Sentei Yaki. Since she met him, she used to celebrate two birthdays: one for her birth and another for her rebirth, which was the date on which she received Yaki's help. …
Memory is everywhere, in the drawer of a family piece of furniture, in a portrait and even in the imagination. When Giancarlo Shibayama's grandfather, Sakae, passed away, his relatives performed a very peculiar ritual. They opened the photo albums and tore out the ones in which someone appeared with the …
On the occasion of the National Censuses that were carried out in Peru in October 2017, a group of Nikkei from different professions created a space for reflection with the “I am Nikkei Peru” campaign, which took advantage of social networks, the media and different spaces to sensitize the Peruvian-Japanese …
Racing driver and support manager at Komatsu Mitsui in Lima, Carolina Shimabukuro Goto's life is a test of skill in mechanics, speed on the wheel and knowing how to avoid the prejudices that are put in front of her. Since she was a child, she liked to play with cars …
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