Enrique Higa Sakuda
@kikerenzoEnrique Higa is a Sansei (third-generation or grandchild of Japanese immigrants) from Peru. He is a journalist and Lima correspondent for International Press, a Spanish-language weekly paper published in Japan. He is also a co-editor and writer for Kaikan magazine, published by the Japanese-Peruvian Association.
Updated July 2024
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Kenji Nakama, winner of the Passport for an Artist contest: “To be an artist you have to be very responsible”
June 1, 2011 • Enrique Higa Sakuda , Asociación Peruano Japonesa
France is the dream of many artists, but only a lucky few get to know it. One of them will be Kenji Nakama Miyashiro, who thanks to a prize will enjoy a three-month stay in the European country, where he will be able to enrich his artistic training. Kenji won first place in the National Passport for an Artist Competition, organized by the Alliance Française of Lima, the French embassy in Peru and the Cultural Center of the Pontifical Catholic …
Nikko, the culinary proposal of Omar Frank Maruy: Nikkei cuisine full of Peruvianness
March 10, 2011 • Enrique Higa Sakuda , Asociación Peruano Japonesa
Remembering childhood is returning to aromas and flavors: a dish prepared by mom, a dessert baked by obaachan , the restaurant where the entire family tribe went to celebrate a good meal and the joy of being together.Omar Frank Maruy's childhood was nourished by the Nikkei cebicherias that he visited with his Nisei grandparents. After five years pursuing his own business project, in February 2010 Omar managed to materialize his dream. Thus Nikko was born, a tribute to the Nikkei …
The Little Princess of Peru: Angélica Harada celebrates 50 years of artistic life - Part 3
March 1, 2011 • Enrique Higa Sakuda , Asociación Peruano Japonesa
Part 2 >> Do you think that art and culture are not valued enough in Peru? I say it because we are heart. On the other hand, now the ones that have come out, the ones that say they are folkloric, have been filled with money. Because? Because they have found the table served, they have not suffered as we have suffered. We have fought to make our folklore known, we have fought in the coliseums, poorly paid, but our …
The Little Princess of Peru: Angélica Harada celebrates 50 years of artistic life - Part 2
Feb. 22, 2011 • Enrique Higa Sakuda , Asociación Peruano Japonesa
Part 1 >> How did it arrive in the Japanese colony? (Luis) Toyama took me, he was president of the Nikkei University Center. He took me to the colony to teach. He brought folklore workshops into the colony, as well as all Peruvian music. By then the activity was in Peru Shimpo, in Jirón Puno. The auditorium that was on the third floor.Yes. I performed there like two or three times. Then he said “we have to form a Peruvian …
The Little Princess of Peru: Angélica Harada celebrates 50 years of artistic life - Part 1
Feb. 15, 2011 • Enrique Higa Sakuda , Asociación Peruano Japonesa
2010 was a special year for Angélica Harada, as it crowned half a century of a successful career dedicated body and soul to Peruvian folklore. While preparing the show that was presented in November for her Golden Wedding Anniversary, the Little Princess of Yungay welcomed us into her home to share her memories. When you look back on your fifty-year artistic career, what makes you most proud?The question is very nice. I look back at my beginnings, their ups and …
Children of Dekasegi, Bilingual and Educated in Japan: The New Generation of Nikkei - Part 2
Nov. 24, 2010 • Enrique Higa Sakuda , Asociación Peruano Japonesa
Part 1 >> How difficult was it to return to your lives in Peru? Was it a shock, or did you both get used to quickly?JBK: It was a big shock for me because I didn’t speak Spanish. The first months, the first year, I didn’t have a way to communicate with people, including, for example, with my aunts; I always had a dictionary in my hand. In addition to this, I would leave my house for a walk and …
Children of Dekasegi, Bilingual and Educated in Japan: The New Generation of Nikkei - Part 1
Nov. 17, 2010 • Enrique Higa Sakuda , Asociación Peruano Japonesa
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 to Peru? Do they miss Japan? We wil explore these and other questions with them. You went to Japan as young children and were educated there. Afterwards you returned to …
It’s good to say “I’m Nikkei” because I am part of something - Part 3
Nov. 9, 2010 • Enrique Higa Sakuda , Asociación Peruano Japonesa
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 which is always present: What it means to be Nikkei. Even offering a class on taiko is important enough. It’s like a down payment of sorts; if afterward …
It’s good to say “I’m Nikkei” because I am part of something - Part 2
Nov. 2, 2010 • Enrique Higa Sakuda , Asociación Peruano Japonesa
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 run away. This kind of Japanese behavior is a sign of environment rather than verbal rules,” she recalled. Just like any typical Japanese home, you are taught by …
It’s good to say “I’m Nikkei” because I am part of something - Part 1
Oct. 26, 2010 • Enrique Higa Sakuda , Asociación Peruano Japonesa
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. What was it about the photograph that changed Kaori? It showed some Japanese dressed in rural garb and eating arepas (bread made of corn flour) on a hillside. Kaori discovered that the people in the photograph were in Ocumare del Tuy, …
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