Read part 1 >> Poetry is plastic. At least that can be deduced from some of the collections of poems that some Nikkei have published in recent years. Disparate editions, poems based on real events, self-published poets and loose verses on social networks also show the winds that carry poetic …
Nikkei poetry has a long history in Peru, starting with classic authors such as José Watanabe or Doris Moromisato, whose collections of poems date back to the seventies and eighties. In subsequent years, other authors such as Juan de la Fuente Umetsu have followed an aesthetic with a notable Japanese …
Harumi López Higa is only 26 years old, but has a long life story that she has been able to summarize in a short film that has brought her early but unanimous recognition. The video Spring Sea , which refers to the meaning of its name, was selected among the …
Geographic distance has not been a reason to separate the literary creation of two countries as dissimilar as Peru and Japan, whose real stories have fueled those of fiction. Writers and academics have looked at the crossed paths of these nations, finding themes, coincidences and other curiosities from migration. Japanese …
Her life has passed between art and highly competitive sports, with notable breaks that she has dedicated to that other demanding job that is being a mother. Marisa Matsuda Matayoshi studied industrial design at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and since she was at La Unión school she became …
Memories often seem to come from a past that fades in memory. Luckily, Eliana Otta Vildoso (Lima, 1981) has several ties that bring her closer to her hometown, her childhood and other drivers of inspiration for this artist and now writer, whose children's book Lucía has street (Pesopluma, 2021) has …
When playing with her partner's daughter, Luciana Yamashiro noticed that her dolls must be tired of always having to eat bread and pizza, plus an occasional banana, and no Peruvian food. Then it occurred to him that they could make dishes with plasticine. He's told it before in a few …
His stage was theaters, children's libraries and cultural centers, where he took his bicycle with the Kamishibai, the traveling paper theater with which Pepe Cabana Kojachi became known as Mukashi Mukashi. Now the stage is on the second floor of his house, where he has set up a set to …
Read part 1 >> An empty wall is endless possibilities. This is how the plastic artist and cultural manager Haroldo Higa sees it, in less metaphorical terms, who has built a wall, concrete and at the same time virtual, for young artists of Japanese descent with the Nikkei Young Art …
2020 has been an especially hard year for artists and other cultural protagonists in Peru. To the closed theaters, canceled concerts and other spaces in an indeterminate suspension, is added a slow economic recovery that affects workers in all sectors and consumers, leading them to change their habits for digital …
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