Stuff contributed by GabyOshiro
My olds
Gaby Oshiro
What is plagiarism? Plagiarism is copying other people's works, giving them as your own without explicitly crediting where the information comes from (Royal Spanish Academy). How many times have I dreamed of having a different family story to tell. I wish I had been accused of plagiarizing someone so I …
Takashi - Part 5
Gaby Oshiro
Read part 4 >> Return In 1992 my mother suddenly made the decision to return to Argentina. In February he sent my brother to Buenos Aires because the start of school was approaching and he didn't want Leo to fall a year behind in high school. At that moment I …
Takashi - Part 4
Gaby Oshiro
Read part 3 >> The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Beba, my mother, always got involved everywhere, without fear of anyone, she asked inconvenient questions, dangerous for the times. I was afraid for her. Since I needed to know what I was doing in those hours that I was in …
Takashi - Part 3
Gaby Oshiro
Read part 2 >> Drink Bresolin My family went through a very difficult time when my dad was taken away. My mother never felt defeated, every day was another day, another opportunity to find her husband. He would leave early and return late, while I stayed with my grandmother Teresa, …
Takashi - Part 2
Gaby Oshiro
Read part 1 >> Labor lawyers When he was fired from the metallurgical factory, Takashi consulted the law firm of Javier Slodky and Mario Garelik, located at 51 Maipú Street in Avellaneda. Both attorneys agreed with the advice Beba had previously given him. They advised my father to continue his …
Takashi - Part 1
Gaby Oshiro
On the night of April 21, 1977, fourteen armed men dressed in civilian clothes invaded the law office of my father Oscar Takashi Oshiro and his partner Enrique Gastón Courtade. They were forced to get into a Ford Falcon and set off for an unknown direction with no return. That …
Desaparecidos Nikkei: Reappeared in the Argentinian Conscience - Part 1
Gaby Oshiro
On the night of April 21, 1977, fourteen armed men wearing civilian clothes went to my dad’s office and took him and another lawyer. They put him in the back of a Ford Falcon (the chosen cars of the military/police) and they sped off—that is what some witnesses said.