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Luis Iguchi Iguchi

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Luis Iguchi Iguchi was born in Lima in 1940. He was a contributor to Perú Shimpo and Prensa Nikkei. He also wrote for magazines such as Nikko, Superación, Puente and El Nisei. He served as president of the Club Nisei Jauja in 1958 and was a founding member of Jauja N° 1 Fire Brigade in 1959. He passed away on November 7, 2023.

Updated December 2023


Stories from This Author

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Cuando llegue el momento

Jan. 18, 2023 • Luis Iguchi Iguchi

Una antigua canción mexicana me hace acordar aquellos viejos momentos ya vividos. La tendencia de todo lo nuestro es vivir de acuerdo con lo que llegue y los años, aquellos que ya se fueron. Vivirán siempre en ese espectacular rincón donde la memoria nos dibuja lo maravilloso que fue nuestra vida. Hoy mis 82 años nada me representan. Mi memoria va cambiando día a día y pienso que todo lo nuestro es un pasado que, poco a poco, se irá …

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Hope in the AELU

Dec. 30, 2022 • Luis Iguchi Iguchi

To think about the year 1953 is to be at the beginning of the 69 years that the La Unión Stadium or AELU as it is known celebrates this year. I was thirteen years old and lived in the city of Jauja. I remember that every so often two oyisanes arrived from Lima with a receipt slip, in order to collect money for the payment that had to be made for the future AELU. The majority of adults in those …

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Goodbye, friend Paquito

Dec. 14, 2022 • Luis Iguchi Iguchi

Time is the only thing that projects us and gives us the end of things. In it we have the years lived and the years to come. Age is the regulation of our principles and we know that in the end the light will go out and everything will remain in memory. The old friend, remembered, loved and always esteemed by the principles of friendship. That's Hugo 'Paco' Miyadi Hinostroza. He was the person who came to Jauja in 1956 …

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The way to play

Dec. 1, 2022 • Luis Iguchi Iguchi

The years are what prolong our daily lives and teach us to continue fighting on the path of hope. And in what is worth mentioning for having in the past time that vice that is lavish in any concern of life that passes and leaves traces in our daily lives: sport. Being on the path to eighty years is a magical way to contemplate our existence. Of wanting to do the same restlessness of our youthful years and contemplate that …

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The blue of the sky

Aug. 8, 2022 • Luis Iguchi Iguchi

Whenever the sky surprises me with its blue tone, it fills me with nostalgia. Color envy produces in me the emotional state of its color. I corrected my mind to be in my childhood years and feel relieved. The Continental Cinema, behind me and I, in the middle of the square, using “Lingo”, the game of jumping and support because we did everything in the best way and with the intention of having a good time. Maybe “The Blue Sky” …

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Alberto Izu: the human encyclopedia

July 6, 2022 • Luis Iguchi Iguchi

There are friendships that, when talking, one tends to see in them a kind of “Human Encyclopedia.” And the curious thing was that the Coronavirus in its long history taught us the sudden change that we had to make in our lives. I, in particular, experienced that, being “El Rincón de los Pájaros Muertos”, the place that I visited most frequently was the AELU, due to its proximity to the entrance door on La Mar Avenue. It was the center …

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Music in AELU Tennis

June 1, 2022 • Luis Iguchi Iguchi

Returning to my memories is thanking life on a journey of healthy happiness. It is feeling that the years that are gone always live palpitating at the end of a 'tie break' or accompanying me with the TV in a tennis match. My mind will always be between the bustle of my teammates and the memory of so many beautiful and charming players in AELU Tennis. Music. The one that gravitated in the friendship of the nineties and at the …

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Jauja, the mirror of a past

May 20, 2022 • Luis Iguchi Iguchi

How many times my steps are directed, they will always go to the Jauja Cemetery. Fast as the youth that passed and was first, or this past that I live today in every attitude of seeing the tombstones, in the concert of the huaynos that is heard every Saturday somewhere, where a relative or friend sleeps the deep sleep of the eternal life. Seven years have passed since my last trip and today, at eighty-two years old, my dream once …

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Jauja: Return to my past

April 20, 2022 • Luis Iguchi Iguchi

Wednesday, March 23, 2022. For the first time I arrived to Jauja by plane from the city of Lima, the travel time was only 35 minutes and we did not feel the famous soroche or the body discomfort that is felt when traveling by land . My group was five people. Three ladies and two gentlemen. All elderly people. Mr. Alejandro Nakao and his wife Ana Minami, Mrs. Paulina Goya, Bertha Matzumoto and me. We arrived at the Francisco Carlé …

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come back one more time

April 6, 2022 • Luis Iguchi Iguchi

How many times do we return to our beginnings. Perhaps in our lifetime there will be many times that we will have to return. And today, as proof of love, I tired my hands with my tennis racket on the AELU courts. A little pichanguita like so many years ago, when the joy of playing was a pastime with the friends who little by little were leaving us. Life. The one that already appears in the old calendar of what …

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