Crónicas Nikkei #3—Nombres Nikkei: ¿Taro, John, Juan, João?
¿Qué hay detrás de un nombre? Esta serie introdujo historias que exploraron los significados, orígenes y las historias no contadas que hay detrás de los nombres propios nikkei. Estos incluyen apellidos, nombres de pila e ¡incluso apodos!
Para este proyecto, le pedimos a nuestros Nima-kai votar por sus historias favoritas y a nuestro comité editorial elegir sus favoritas. Aquí están las historias favoritas elegidas.
Las elegidas del Comité Editorial:
- ESPAÑOL:
Una Discordante Coincidencia de Nombres
Por Jimmy Seiji Amemiya Siu
- INGLÉS:
Redescubriendo Mi Apellido Entre Dos Culturas
Por Jayme Tsutsuse
- PORTUGUÉS:
¿Quién habla?
Por Claudio Sampei
- JAPONÉS
Lo que implica tener un nombre de origen japonés en Brasil
Por Satomi Takano Kitahara
La elegida por Nima-Kai:
- 96 estrellas:
Los Nombres Elegidos
Por Mary Sunada
Historias de Esta Serie
Struggle for Identity
14 de agosto de 2014 • Roy Wesley
As I think about my name and what it has meant to me over the different stages of my life, I see that my name has not been a constant feature of ME. I have evolved over time and my perception of my name has altered with each modification. I was born Roy Kermit Uyesugi at the time that the US was brought into WWII by the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. After our family left the interment camp at …
You Can Call Me Ben
8 de agosto de 2014 • Gary T. Ono
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” (Shakespeare; Romeo and Juliet) William pretty much sums it up for me as far as names go, but it is interesting to learn about how names are determined by different times and cultures. In Japan, middle names were not used, but in the turn-of-the-century America, Japanese pioneer immigrants, Issei, in most cases gave their Nisei children, second generation Japanese in America, Japanese …
What’s in a Nikkei Name?
1 de agosto de 2014 • Lloyd Kajikawa
Writing assignment: an essay about Nikkei Names. A cinch, until I asked myself the question, “What is a Nikkei name?” As I understand it, Nikkei is the term we are using these days for Japanese in the diaspora? If so, should I write about Japanese names? That would be a short essay, unless I made a list of all the Japanese names I know—actually, it would still be a short essay. So, if not “Japanese” names, then I’ll write about …
Here’s My Name
17 de julio de 2014 • Oscar Madrigal
My mother wanted to name me Nicolas, after her father. He died when she was still very young. My father was against it. He didn’t want any of the kids named after anyone in the family. He wanted all of us to have our own names. Being, that my dad is a junior, I’m sure the pressure of being named and following in grandfather’s footsteps must have weighed heavily on him. My grandfather had been a Bracero during World War …
Don't Call Me Michael!
8 de julio de 2014 • Mike Murase
I was born in Japan. My birth name is Murase Ichiro [村瀬一郎]. My obaachan proposed “Ichiro”—a name not uncommon for a first-born male, but she also had another reason. My grandmother, who taught at Kyoritsu Women’s University in Tokyo, had been a friend of the mother of Hatoyama Ichirō, a Japanese politician who later headed the center-right Liberal Democratic Party and became the Prime Minister of Japan. (He’d be turning in his grave to know that a person with progressive, …
Asamen - Is it Japanese?
1 de julio de 2014 • Tim Asamen
My name is Tim Asamen, and, yes, I am a full-fledged Sansei. I say that because my surname is so strange that it can be downright baffling to ethnic Japanese. Whenever I introduce myself to both Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans, it always causes confusion. When I say “Asamen” the usual response is “huh?” It’s even worse when some of my own family members say our name because they don’t pronounce it with a Japanese accent, so it sounds more …
