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Journalism as Vocation (Spanish)

(Spanish) I found a job more or less…I wasn’t thinking, but it seemed that for my character…because I wasn’t like other Japanese. I am not so, how can I say, everyone says “you are not Japanese.” [Perhaps because] I am neither timid nor shy. It seems that I am not afraid to speak with a person whom I don’t know. And I question everything, unlike other Japanese who think, “if I question this it will be bad.” Not openly, although it makes one mad, it doesn’t bother me.


journalism

Date: February 23, 2007

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Interviewer: Takeshi Nishimura, Ricardo Hokama

Contributed by: Centro Nikkei Argentino

Interviewee Bio

Takagi Kazuomi was born in Japan on March 27, 1925, in the Mie province. He arrived in Argentina as a tourist and never returned to Japan. By chance he started out in journalism, a profession that provided employment for more than fifty years on radio and in the graphic arts. Today, at eighty-one years old, he continues to fervently work as a journalist for the newspaper of the Japanese collectivity, La Plata Hochi (Japanese Section), including acting stints in various forms of publicity. He passed away on November 10, 2014 at age 89. (January 2021)

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The Father who started the Rafu Shimpo (Japanese)

(b.1908) Daugther of the first publisher of the Rafu Shimpo

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