Emi Kasamatsu
Emi Kasamatsu is a Paraguayan Nisei, a researcher on Japanese immigration and gender, a graduate of the Bachelor of Arts and a Master's in Gender and Development from the National University of Asunción. Abroad, she took courses in Applied Anthropology; Research Methodology; Governance and Leadership; Social Feminist Economy; Ethics, Social Capital and Development; and Care Economy. She belonged to INRP (International Nikkei Research project). She gave numerous lectures on these topics.
Publications: Japanese Presence in Paraguay ; History of the Pan-American Nikkei Association ; Life Path in Bushido ; Evocations . In group: Encyclopedia of Japanese descent in America; New worlds, New lives; “When the East arrived in the Americas”; “Bicentennial of the independence of Paraguay (1811-2021)” and has appeared in numerous anthologies.
Distinctions: Decoration of the Rising Sun with Gold and Silver Rays, Red Cross of Japan, Academic of the Paraguayan Academy of History, Honorary President of the PEN Paraguay Center. Ambassador of Kagawa.
Last updated November 2024
Stories from This Author
The generational problem among the Nikkei of Paraguay
May 9, 2007 • Emi Kasamatsu
The Japanese who arrived in Paraguay from 1936 to 1941, that is, during the period before the Second World War, practically only those who came as young people and children in La Colmena remain. However, the influence exerted by these first immigrants on their descendants was and continues to be significant and, that this missing link of the Japanese soul of the post-Meiji era is still in force, it remains between the Japanese and Nisei of La Colmena, characterized by …
The Japanese language as the foundation of identity and the preservation of traditions and culture
April 24, 2007 • Emi Kasamatsu
Through careful observation, it is important to ascertain that the Nikkei of Paraguay along with those of Santa Cruz de la Sierra and San Juan of Bolivia are those who perhaps speak the Japanese language best and in number on the American continent. Knowledge of the language allows them to preserve the lifestyle and customs and even the characters and philosophy of life of their ancestors. For many Nisei, the Japanese language is the language of home, especially for those …
The importance of associativity among the Japanese, formation of associations, federations and charitable and sports entities
April 10, 2007 • Emi Kasamatsu
It is said that three Japanese people meet and an association is formed. Such is the need to group together to achieve a common objective in the search for benefits that benefit the group and its subsequent significance towards a community. This associative form is deeply embedded in the soul of the Japanese with the motto “two heads are worth more than one” and the value of working as a team and achieving balance between everyone. Group work can be …
Women of the world where they are located and Nikkei women
March 28, 2007 • Emi Kasamatsu
Since time immemorial, going back to the genesis of human creation, according to the Western conception, the first men on earth are: Adam and Eve, in which the inferior condition of women with respect to men is explicit. Would this have been the divine plan such that man is the master and lord of the earth and is the one who governs the destinies of the world? Eve, as the sacred book says, was created from Adam's rib to establish …
The contribution of Japanese immigrants to agriculture
March 13, 2007 • Emi Kasamatsu
The opening of Japanese immigration in Paraguay, which occurred in 1936, took place under the government of Colonel Rafael Franco, for this purpose the following clause was established in which the government of Paraguay accepted 100 Japanese agricultural families on an experimental basis. . The Colonizing Company of Paraguay, PARATAKU*, established for this purpose in the country. For an adequate order in the development of the colony, he had first brought immigrant guides from Brazil so that, with their previous …
The situation of Japanese immigration after the Second World War
Feb. 20, 2007 • Emi Kasamatsu
There were many difficulties, sufferings and humiliations that Japanese immigrants from the American continent had to go through as a result of Japan's entry into the Second World War, with the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. However, Due to the space given to me, I only want to refer to the result of the war episode in the Latin American countries where Japanese immigration exists. Each of these countries had reacted differently but there was a common …
The importance of Yamato Damashi and Yamato Nadeshiko
Jan. 18, 2007 • Emi Kasamatsu
In the year 660 BC, the first Emperor of Japan appears on the scene with the name of Jimmu, which means "Divine Warrior" and establishes himself on the plains of Yamato with the name of Kammu Yamato Iware No Hiko, who would become the descendant of the Goddess. of the Sun, Amaterasu. Several conjectures were woven into the veracity of that descent today. According to Whitney Hall, the hegemony of the Yamato dynasty established certain hierarchical structures; Above all was …
Lights and shadows of the first Japanese hive
Dec. 20, 2006 • Emi Kasamatsu
As has been recently reported, Paraguay was one of the last countries in South America where Japanese immigrants entered (1936). Perhaps because Paraguay, due to its Mediterranean nature, was a country without sea coasts. The absence of the sea was a negative condition for the vital development of people and for any relationship with the outside world as well as for adequate commercial transactions. La Colmena was the first Japanese colony in Paraguay, it was considered “an island without the …
Situational provisions and prohibitions on the entry of immigrants of the yellow race
Dec. 6, 2006 • Emi Kasamatsu
Historical background European countries that have begun to emigrate to other regions since the beginning of the 19th century, it is estimated that, until 1932, about 80 million people emigrated. The Asian countries were practically isolated from the world context; the Chinese first began to mobilize in 1840. Later with the restoration of the Japanese Empire with Emperor Meiji, which led to the opening of the country to the outside world, they left in 1886 to Hawaii, the first Japanese …
Trajectory of the first Japanese in Paraguay
Nov. 22, 2006 • Emi Kasamatsu
Making a historical review about the movement of the Japanese abroad and especially to the Americas, it was relatively null in the 15th to 16th centuries when European ships had already made their conquest and expansion in the new lands of America and also the Far East. . For these conquerors, all those who did not belong to the white European race were “barbarians.” However, the conceptualization of barbarity for the Japanese with respect to foreigners was also similar; they …
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