The Okuyama family is one of the few Nikkei families in Peru that are fortunate to have an Issei at home. Motome Okuyama turned 101 on November 7, 2015 in top form: she sings, writes, cooks, plays gateball, sews, goes shopping alone and is able to perform 64 songs by …
In June 2015, Mitsuharu Tsumura's restaurant Maido was ranked among the 50 best in the world, according to a ranking by Restaurant magazine. It was a milestone for Nikkei cuisine. Tsumura then declared: “The most beautiful thing is that it is the first time in history that a Nikkei restaurant, …
At first they were dekasegi , people who migrate to work and save with the purpose of returning to their land. 25 years later, the Peruvians who began to migrate to Japan when hyperinflation and terrorism were destroying the country are no longer temporary workers, but immigrants. What balance can …
When Kuni Terukina arrived at the eisa by one of those chances that seem created by destiny, Okinawa was for him synonymous with boredom. He had been there shortly before, in 1998, to visit his family. He got so bored that he promised himself never to return. He was then …
If a filmmaker had to direct a film inspired by the life of Yoshitaro Amano, he wouldn't have to invent or exaggerate anything to give it emotion. His life had all the ingredients to be an event on the big screen: adventure, drama, passion, fight, etc. There would be plenty …
When they returned to their town, Maida, the Italians who had migrated to the United States were received as emissaries of a new, different, modern world, full of opportunities, living proof that there was a future outside, another life, other airs. They were the bold ones who had chosen to …
No sushi. No ramen (por ahora). No fusión. Donburi es comida casera japonesa. Julio Kosaka y Óscar Matsufuji no han abierto un restaurante para revolucionar nada, no aspiran a ninguna vanguardia. Lo suyo es volver a las raíces, bucear en la tradición.
“¿Para qué?”, pregunta varias veces Kikue Harada. No se explica por qué tanto revuelo a su alrededor, por qué alguien quiere entrevistarla. Como si llegar a los 103 años de edad en buen estado de salud, lúcida y en pie, fuera normal y no un logro al alcance de unos …
Almost seven years in Japan. Sufficient time to learn Japanese. I didn’t learn it well; just enough to get by on a day-to-day basis. In truth, you don’t need to learn it. We didn’t need to learn it. In those times (the beginning of the 1990s), we Peruvians had an …
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