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Aiko Yamada Yoshimoto grew up in Lima, Peru, but her connection to traditional eisa dance of Okinawa became more important at a time when she …
“I was a very shy child,” he confesses, preferring to be at the back of the group during sanshin presentations. That’s how John remembers his …
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Read Part 1 >> In June 1938, Urbain-Marie Cloutier/Yonekawa was sent to Peru. During his time in Alexandria, Egypt in the mid-1930s, Yonekawa had made …
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“What is Nikkei cuisine?” seems like a simple question, but beneath it is a complex definition that is even hard for Nikkei themselve to describe. …
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It’s the Year of the Rabbit and in October I will be 60 years old. My Okinawan grandparents would say I’m going to celebreate my …
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El Perú parece tener sus propias corrientes literarias entre las que el haiku sopla como una ventisca refrescante en el aliento de autores de distinta …
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December 2022. When the year was about to end, we lost a great social scientist. Her name was Amelia Morimoto. As a researcher, she dedicated …
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Originally from the island of Okinawa, the Japanese surname Higa is one of the most common in that prefecture as well as in Peru’s Nikkei …
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In my efforts to learn about Nisei soldier history, I inevitably began to learn more about the incarceration of the Mainland Nikkei during World War …
The word ubicua (“ubiquitous”) has two meanings. The second, referring to a person, is: “Someone who want to experience everything and is always moving.” That …
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