Amelia Morimoto
@AmeliaAmelia Morimoto is coordinator and editor of the San Marcos Foundation - Japanese American National Museum Agreement, Discover Nikkei Project (2007-present). She is the author of the books: “ Japanese immigrants in Peru ” (Lima, 1979), “ Population of Japanese origin in Peru: Current profile” (Lima, 1991); “ Peru no Nihonjin Imin” (Tokyo, 1992) and “ The Japanese and their descendants in Peru” (Lima, 1999). She is co-author, among others, of the books: “ The Memory of the Eye. 100 years of Japanese Presence in Peru ” (Lima, 1999/with José Watanabe and Óscar Chambi) and “ When the East came to America. Contributions of Chinese, Japanese and Korean immigrants in Latin America and the Caribbean ”, Director of the study and editor (Washington DC, IDB, 2004).
Last updated September 2009
Stories from This Author
Nikkei presence in Peruvian cuisine II
April 27, 2010 • Amelia Morimoto
>> First part The beginning of the boom of Nikkei chefs and restaurants At the end of the 20th century, several Nisei restaurants, such as “Costanera 700” by Humberto Sato, “Rosita” by Rosita Yimura ( – 2005), “Ah -gusto” by Augusto Kage, “La Buena Muerte” by Minoru Kunigami ( 1918- 2004) 1 , “Otani's meeting” and “Lobos de Mar” by the Otani Family, “Darío” by Darío Matsufuji, among others, achieved wide recognition that was not based only on popularity among …
Nikkei presence in Peruvian cuisine I
April 26, 2010 • Amelia Morimoto
Introduction The first version of this article was written in 1993 for the book “Culture, identity and cuisine in Peru” 1 . At that time, although already known, Peruvian Nikkei cuisine had not yet achieved the diffusion and recognition that it currently enjoys, as is the case of Japanese cuisine in its exceptional international dimension at the present. Although specialized publications regarding Japanese and Nikkei foods have multiplied since then, the reproduction of this article - with some updates - …
The Nikkei in Peru II: Identity and culture
Sept. 16, 2009 • Amelia Morimoto
At the XV Pan-American Nikkei Conference (Copani) to be held in the city of Montevideo, Uruguay in the third week of this month, the Japanese American National Museum, through the Discover Nikkei Project, will be in charge of the table (workshop ) that will address – in its second session – the topic “Multiraciality and multiethnicity in Nikkei Communities.” This second topic raises, in principle, the questions: what is Nikkei? and who is Nikkei? Then, starting from the observation that …
The Nikkei in Peru I: Migration in figures
Sept. 15, 2009 • Amelia Morimoto
Presentation 1 In the third week of this month, the XV Nikkei Pan American Conference (Copani) will be held in the city of Montevideo, Uruguay. At this event, the Japanese American National Museum, through the Discover Nikkei Project, will be in charge of the workshop that will address the topics: “The Nikkei Diaspora: Nikkei Migration in Global Society” (1st session) and “Multiraciality and multiethnicity in Nikkei Communities” (2nd session). The first will serve, on the one hand, to analyze the …
Two Nikkei among the 50 best students of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
June 23, 2009 • Amelia Morimoto
The Academic Vice-Rector of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos organized the award ceremony for the 50 students with the highest academic performance during the 2008 academic year, as part of the commemorative activities for the 458th anniversary of the founding of this university. This ceremony took place on Friday the 5th of this year in the General Hall of the San Marcos Cultural Center (in the old and restored Casona del Parque Universitario), with the assistance of the …
Impressions about the Symposium “Japanese Presence in Latin America” in Sao Paulo
June 3, 2008 • Amelia Morimoto
May 19 and 20 were the dates of the “Japanese Presence in Latin America” Symposium, organized by the Latin American Memorial Foundation of the Government of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, in commemoration of the Centennial of Japanese Immigration in that country, with the support of several Brazilian Nikkei institutions and the academic coordination of Dr. Shozo Motoyama, professor at the University of Sao Paulo. My first impression, and surely also for the majority of foreign attendees at the …
Religion among the Nikkei of Peru
May 1, 2007 • Amelia Morimoto
At present, one of the differences that can be observed between individuals and communities of Japanese origin in Latin America in relation to the countries of the north of the American continent is religion. The predominance of Catholicism among the populations of Latin American countries is also reproduced in the Nikkei and, among the communities of this origin in the region, it seems that Peru is the one with the largest relative number of Catholics. 1 In the second and …
Cifras y migraciones entre Perú y Japón
April 4, 2007 • Amelia Morimoto
En el tema de la migración de japoneses al Perú, el aspecto de las cifras no sólo ha sido motivo de controversias entre autores y actores, sino también uno de los más sensibles pues, en algunos momentos del siglo pasado, se convirtieron en argumentos para acciones y medidas orientadas a la exclusión de la población de ese origen. Entre las cifras, sobre la que existe un cierto consenso—por lo menos en la historiografía especializada—es en la referente al período de …
Those absent in the photos: Nikkei women in Peru
March 8, 2007 • Amelia Morimoto
In a review of the bibliographic production on the Nikkei in Peru we noticed that - although the number of women authors is significant - the topic(s) about women have a minimal presence or are almost absent. We ask ourselves: has such a presence in history been really and symbolically poor? Or has it really and symbolically been minimized? In search of answers, we carefully analyzed one of the most suggestive sources: an album printed in 1924 by the Nippi …
On names and collective identity: The case of the Nikkei in Peru
Jan. 25, 2007 • Amelia Morimoto
The topic of identity, although very frequently mentioned in discourses, especially political and academic, is one that - due to its complexity - presents the greatest difficulties for an accurate definition. However, some notions in this regard and approaches to specific cases can allow us a greater understanding of this topic that seems to be very relevant on current agendas. We know that individual and collective identities are defined throughout personal and joint histories and that such identities are always …
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