culture en ja es pt

How Do Nikkei Living in Japan Spend Their New Year?

In Japan, there are old traditions that go back hundreds of years, such as hanami1 in the spring, unagi2 in the summer, or buying a kumade3 …

food en es pt

Roger Arakaki, Chef and Teacher

“How does ceviche sushi sound? Amazing, right? An innovative (and delicious) presentation of ingredients from our national cuisine, finely chopped and masterfully combined.” These days, …

identity en ja es pt

Japan, not so close anymore

I was pleased to learn that Chile had shut out Japan 4-0 in the most recent version of the America Cup soccer tournament. I hoped …

community en ja es pt

Nikkei Oshogatsu Stories 2017 - Part 1

In our January e-newsletter, Discover Nikkei put out a call for Oshogatsu stories. We asked our Nikkei readers from around the world to show us, …

identity en ja es pt

Nikkei Chronicles #5—Nikkei-go: The Language of Family, Community, and Culture

How I Found Out I Was Uchinānchu (Okinawan)

I lived a peaceful life with my grandparents on the 11th block of Arnaldo Márquez street in the Jesús María District of Lima (where “anyone …

identity en ja es pt

Nikkei Chronicles #3—Nikkei Names: Taro, John, Juan, João?

My Experience as a Dekasegi

My parents are Japanese (my father is from Kagoshima; my mother from Ehime), which firmly rooted my sentiments towards Japan until I was able to …

identity en ja es pt

Japan, a land still waiting to be discovered

Almost seven years in Japan. Sufficient time to learn Japanese. I didn’t learn it well; just enough to get by on a day-to-day basis. In …

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Global Inequities and Diasporic Return: Japanese American and Brazilian Encounters with the Ethnic Homeland: Part 10 of 10

Read Part 9 >> CONCLUSION: SAME HOMELAND, DIFFERENT HOMECOMINGS When I was conducting participant observation among Japanese Brazilian workers at Toyama factory in Japan, I was wearing …

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Global Inequities and Diasporic Return: Japanese American and Brazilian Encounters with the Ethnic Homeland: Part 9 of 10

Read Part 8 >> Because of their relatively positive socio-occupational and ethnic reception in Japan, none of my Japanese American informants developed negative sentiments toward Japanese …

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Global Inequities and Diasporic Return: Japanese American and Brazilian Encounters with the Ethnic Homeland: Part 8 of 10

Read Part 7 >> The Japanese Americans: A Broadening of Ethnic Consciousness Because the Japanese Americans have a much more favorable ethnic homecoming, they do not react …