At school, Daniel Saucedo Segami noticed that there were things that differentiated him from his classmates. Certain words, for example. “I once said 'bakatare' (fool) to a friend who had done something wrong. He looked at me and said 'what is that?'” Or I talked to them about butsudan and …
Carlos Runcie Tanaka says that he prefers to mold clay to say the things that happen to him as a human being. However, despite denying it, he is able to express himself with words, almost as if he were reciting. His words have a cadence and there are silences that …
If soccer is the corner of optimism for Peruvians, the national team is its maximum expression. In this enthusiastic scenario, every young footballer knows a mysterious word: promise. Anthony Tadashi Aoki Nakama is 17 years old and was captain of the under 17 team that played in the South American …
In 1956, at the age of 56, Seitoku Shimabukuro, overwhelmed by debt, decided to migrate to the Peruvian Amazon to save himself from shipwreck. The once successful businessman, owner of a school, one of the most influential people in the Japanese colony in Callao (Lima), goes into the jungle for …
Sofía Pichihua is not just any otaku. This manga fan, who began following the anime that aired on television back in 2000, has become the biggest collector of Cardcaptor Sakura , the manga by CLAMP, a female quartet of Japanese cartoonists who gave life to Sakura Kinomoto, a girl who …
A regular Nikkei crowd filled the dance halls every week. Witness to this are the Majestic Hall, the Kaseijo Gakko by Sáenz Peña in La Victoria or the Chinese Beneficence. Every week there were parties in the Japanese colony in Lima. To give greater excitement, the place was decorated according …
Beto Shiroma shakes his hand tightly. He seems to be full of energy, as if the day had just begun, although night has almost fallen when the interview takes place and he has easily had a hectic day, like every time he arrives in Peru. It's paradoxical: he has a …
Marco Carrasco Villanueva has made news in Peru. The publication on the website of his alma mater, the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, about the first place obtained in a master's degree at the Sorbonne University in Paris, put all the spotlights on this young Peruvian student who, beyond …
I spent almost all of my childhood with my grandmother. Her customs, which were of course very Japanese, were reflected in her daily life. She didn't celebrate Christmas, but she did celebrate Oshogatsu (New Year in Japanese).
Clotilde Yamasaki never knew her father's real name. He only remembered that his countrymen, Japanese immigrants like him, called him “Torak.” In Peru he was baptized as José. One of the few things she knew about her father, a silent and reserved man, was that he had arrived in Peru …
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