José Iraha Flores is twenty-three years old and studies communications in the University of Lima. José Bravo Kohatsu is twenty-six and works in the Japanese consulate. Both are children of dekasegi1 who were born in Peru but raised and educated in Japan where they learned Japanese. Why did they return …
Part 2 >> The Nikkei in Peru Kaori is impressed by the way the Nikkei community in Peru has preserved its identity. “What I really find admirable is that there is a place (Japanese-Peruvian Cultural Center) that seeks to maintain the Nikkei identity in some fashion; there’s no reason to analyze something …
Part 1 >> Nikkei Identity Kaori was raised by her grandmother in a Japanese environment. “Our relationship within our Japanese home was one of constant silence; it took just a simple stare of disapproval to know that I did something wrong. My grandmother did not have to say anything for me to …
Two years ago a photograph changed Kaori Flores Yonekura’s life, a Venezuelan filmmaker whose grandparents were Japanese. It was a photo of Mr. Takeuchi, who at the time of the photograph was president of the Nikkei Association of Venezuela.
1960s. The painful times of war were gone. The Japanese colony had turned the page and was beginning to take off. Their businesses prospered and the children of Japanese immigrants occupied the top positions in schools or excelled in universities. However, the Central Japanese Society, the institution that represented and …
1999: Copa América football. Peru is going to play against Japan and the employee of the bakery where I just bought an empanada, one block from the office where I work, asks me: And who are you going to? To Peru or Japan? To Peru obviously, I answer. I am …
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