Like every morning seven days a week, Jesús Akachi opens his stationery store “La Nueva Violeta” at 9:45 in the morning sharp. Throughout the day, between notebooks, pencils, pens and thousands of merchandise that make up the items of their business, Don Jesús and his wife will serve hundreds of …
The month of September is important for the people of Mexico because it celebrates the anniversary of its Independence. In the year 1910, the celebrations were grand and special as the first centenary of the Independence of Mexico was celebrated with multiple activities. The government of General Porfirio Díaz prepared …
This August will mark 71 years since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The people of both cities paid for the end of the war with their own deaths and the destruction of their cities, but those who managed to survive continue to suffer …
For 72 years, the Chuo Gakuen school has provided Japanese language and cultural education to Nikkei and Mexican children. The school, located in a modest neighborhood in the center of Mexico City, is celebrating this anniversary thanks to the hard work and tenacity of many people who have made sure …
In 1912, the mayor of Tokyo, Yukio Ozaki, presented the United States with almost 3,000 cherry trees, which were then planted throughout the U.S. capital. In the years that followed, Washington, D.C. came to be covered with millions of cherry blossoms, coloring the city’s landscape every year in early spring.
Mitsuko Osaka was born in 1914 in the small town of Ina, Nagano Prefecture, the second of four daughters of the Osaka family. She grew up at the center of a well-off farming family. Her father, in addition to growing silkworms and rice, was the treasurer of a silk farmers’ …
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