Concepción Michie Hiramuro and Francisco Yoshitaka Akachi married in the city of Guadalajara in 1963. Their lives were not only intertwined by the fact that they formed a family; Their lives took parallel paths when they were born in Mexico as children of Japanese immigrants and because their childhood was …
The series of anti-immigration measures being instituted by President Donald Trump, including the proposed elimination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, is a stark reminder of how Japanese-Americans were persecuted after the Pacific War broke out in December 1941.
In October 2017, leading Mexican businessman Carlos Kasuga Osaka celebrated his 80th birthday. Carlos is known to many as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Yakult, a Japanese company. He has also become very famous as a public speaker, with thousands of followers on social media.
José Taro Zorrilla Takeda is a young Japanese-Mexican artist and architect who was educated at prestigious universities in Japan and Mexico. Through his profession and social activism, he has succeeded in combining the training both countries provided to develop his career and dedicate himself to addressing the problems facing both …
The book Umi wo koete gohyakunen (500 years across the sea) written by Shozo Ogino is one of the most fascinating accounts of the relations between Mexico and Japan. Although the 440-page volume begins with the description of the first contacts between New Spain and Japan in the 16th century, …
Isamu Carlos Shubayama, the son of Japanese immigrants, was born in Peru in 1931. When he was still a boy, his parents, siblings and grandparents were arrested in Lima in response to a request from the U.S. government in 1944. The Shibayamas were taken to the United States, where they …
It was early in the morning of March 11, 2011, and Midori Suzuki was having trouble sleeping. That same day, the Japanese Mexican Association was to inaugurate an art exhibit called Flor de Maguey that she had organized with some of her fellow painters. After Midori was finally able to …
The hundreds of thousands of Japanese immigrants who came to the Americas brought only the bare necessities: some clothing, perhaps a few photographs to remind them of home. But they also came with many traditions and customs passed down through their families in their home villages. Despite being separated from …
For the millions of Mexicans and resident muslims in United States On the afternoon of December 7, 1941, the news of the attack by the Japanese navy on the North American naval base at Pearl Harbor had already spread like wildfire throughout the American continent. In the United States, Mexico …
For Mexico, late 1910 was a time of great contrasts. On the one hand, the celebration of its first centenary in September of that year appeared to show a united and modern country, full of joy and patriotism. This was the image that President Porfirio Díaz, who had governed the …
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