Discover Nikkei

https://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/series/ventaja-ser-nikkei/

Is it an advantage or not to be Nikkei?


Nov. 22, 2006 - June 19, 2007

Emi Kamatsu makes a historical development of Paraguay from the first immigrants to the present. It investigates the barriers of the countries receiving Japanese immigration: economic, political, cultural. The organizational, moral and ethical heritage of the Meiji era, the post-war expulsion of the kimines , their great contribution to cooperative and associative development despite segregation. Finally, generational and contextual change.



Stories from this series

Trayectoria de los primeros japoneses en el Paraguay

Nov. 22, 2006 • Emi Kasamatsu

Haciendo una reseña histórica acerca del movimiento de los japoneses al exterior y sobre todo a las Americas, fue relativamente nula en los siglos XV a XVI cuando los barcos Europeos ya habían hecho su conquista y expansión en las nuevas tierra de América y también del lejano oriente. Para estos conquistadores eran “bárbaros”, todos los que no pertenecían a la raza blanca europea. Sin embargo, la conceptualización de la barbaridad para los japoneses con respecto a extranjeros era también …

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Author in This Series

Emi Kasamatsu is a Paraguayan Nisei, researcher on Japanese immigration to Paraguay and the Americas. He has published two books on the subject and other publications, such as Discover Nikkei and INRP from the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, USA.

He has given several conferences at the JOCHI and Nanzan Universities in Japan and the UCLA in the USA and at the Pan-American Nikkei Conventions in about ten countries and at the Memorial of the Americas in Brazil, on immigration issues and the Nikkei in Latin America.

She has a Bachelor of Arts and a Master in Gender and Development from the National University of Asunción, a Post Graduate Degree in Governance and Leadership at the International Institute of Governance of Catalonia, Spain, in Research Methodology and a Diploma in Social and Solidarity Economy at REPEM.

Last updated April 2014