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Both parents grew up in Colonia Okinawa, Bolivia. I first met Eriko Higa, an immigration lawyer ba…

Keiko Fukuda • April 24, 2023

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Colonia

On the night of September 11, 1966, the Sakura Maru that we were on dropped anchor in the port of S…

Maximiliano Shigeki Matsumura • Oct. 18, 2021

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Nikkei Chronicles #10—Nikkei Generations: Connecting Families & Communities

My relationship with Nihongo

I think that most people who have Japanese origins have had contact with nihongo or colonia-go sinc…

Antonio Kotaro Hayata • Oct. 13, 2021

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Souvenirs from the Japanese Colony in Jauja, Peru

There are those who say that remembering is living again. And in these last years of life that I li…

Luis Iguchi Iguchi • Sept. 23, 2020

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The Nikkei of Latin America and Latino Nikkei

"Collaboradores Conference 2018" and visit to local Japanese communities in Brazil

At the end of August 2018, I had the opportunity to attend an international symposium called "…

Alberto J. Matsumoto • March 16, 2020

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Yoshiki Nagahama of One Okinawa - Media connecting Okinawan people

Colonia Okinawa The web magazine One Okinawa opened on October 30, 2019 as “a web media conn…

Keiko Fukuda • Jan. 6, 2020

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The evil hand closing in on the huge Japanese settlement of Yguazu - The secret activities of "landless farmers"

It was a shocking story that made me say, "Not again!" The National Institute of Rural La…

Kunio Sakamoto • Nov. 27, 2019

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Japanese people and the Japanese language

A moment with an immigrant family "You'll go to Cafe Senasuka. What about you?" "…

Shigeru Kojima • May 16, 2018

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Colonia Japanese Language Education as a Bilingual Education

"Investing in Japanese language education in kindergartens is highly effective," conclud…

Masayuki Fukasawa • Feb. 5, 2018

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Is "immigrant" a discriminatory term? Expressions related to identity - Part 2

Masayuki Fukasawa • Feb. 1, 2017

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Eriko Higa, born in Japan, raised in Bolivia, became a lawyer in the United States