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Araceli Wences Rangel


Araceli Wences Rangel is a graduate of the Autonomous University of Guerrero where she graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters with the thesis “Mexico's participation in the Second World War.” He is currently a Master's student in Humanities and is developing the project “Japanese migration to Mexico and its presence in the state of Guerrero.”

Last updated September 2021


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Juan Guillermo Fuse: An example of the unfair concentration for the Japanese in Mexico

Sept. 29, 2021 • Sergio Hernández Galindo , Araceli Wences Rangel

Many Japanese who emigrated to Mexico in the first half of the 20th century decided not only to settle in this country, they also acquired Mexican nationality. Juan Guillermo Fuse was one of them who considered “Mexico as his homeland” and brought his wife Kiyoko, from the same town where he was born, in the Gunma prefecture, with whom he had three Mexican daughters. When the war between the United States and Japan began in December 1941, persecution broke out …

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