Victor Nishio Yasuoka
@victornishioyasuokaVictor Nishio Yasuoka is a third-generation descendant of Japanese immigrants in Peru. Halfway through elementary school, he moved with his family to Panama, where he finished school. Almost 10 years later, he returned to Peru, finding the country completely changed. He studied architecture at a public university, but realized that his greatest interest lay in the field of communications. Today, living in Lima, Victor is a publicist, visual artist, and columnist.
To take a look at his work, visit his new website: www.victor.pe, where you will find all his artistic, graphic, and literary output.
Updated August 2009
Stories from This Author
My experience Little Tokyo, Los Angeles
Dec. 6, 2012 • Victor Nishio Yasuoka
A trip is always exciting because new places are motivating for many reasons: unknown products to consume, tourist attractions and entertainment, other ways of conceiving a city, different cars, different stores and brands, unknown customs and traditions.Los Angeles was no exception in any of these and many more variables. It is a flat, long, endless city because behind the hills there are more and more buildings. Like any large city, this one is multicultural, generating different ethnic groupings (even if …
Conversations from a distance with Paty Arakawa - Part 2
July 5, 2012 • Victor Nishio Yasuoka
Part 1 >> VICTOR: About poetry… at one point you commented on poetry. How do you conceive it? What do you see in him? Many times I have tried to understand it and write it, read it in length but I achieved nothing until after reading something by Watanabe but it didn't go any further. I think it is something that would help many people find meaning in their lives by seeing them through different eyes, but it is very …
Conversations from a distance with Paty Arakawa - Part 1
July 3, 2012 • Victor Nishio Yasuoka
Patricia Arakawa is 22 years old and is sansei; She studies Mathematics and is fond of poetry and chess. She is a columnist in the newspaper Perú Shimpo and also posts her thoughts and concerns on patyna127.blogspot.com under the pseudonym Patydrómeda.PATY: Discrimination in Lima? In what is my personal experience, I could not speak ill, and that, I have studied all my life in non-Nikkei schools where my brother and I were always the "lunars." On the contrary, every place …
The eye of a dragon in China - Part 3 of 3
May 24, 2012 • Victor Nishio Yasuoka
Part 2 >> Xian, second city They say it is the cultural capital... we can visit the terracotta soldiers who are impressive because there are so many of them; It is a somewhat slow tourist-historical visit, with cold and heavy dissonant architecture contrasted with the historical display of a paranoid emperor buried with his servants and possessions. Impacted by the amount of ceramics.Continued, eating and eating, more Chinese food at a buffet... it is what in Peru is considered "chifa" …
The eye of a dragon in China - Part 2 of 3
May 17, 2012 • Victor Nishio Yasuoka
Part 1 >> Eat eat eat It is one of the pillars of the experience of getting to know foreign and strange places... although it was not so foreign to me because much of what I ate had flavors that I tried throughout my childhood from my paternal grandmother, like misoshiru , although it was instant but it helped to remember, so I enjoyed it quite a bit; Also, a frozen soba with nori, egg, and onions brought back fond …
The eye of a dragon in China - Part 1 of 3
May 10, 2012 • Victor Nishio Yasuoka
Between Japan - my grandparents' place of origin - and China, my wife and I chose China due to the misfortune that Fukushima suffered due to its nuclear reactors. To visit Japan, we have chosen to wait (patience, as an oriental characteristic) for the Japanese themselves to resume their previous energies so that we can fully get to know the country, its landscapes, tourist attractions and, most importantly, the customs of its people and their culture. . Tourists who were …
Conversations from a distance with Victor Gusukuma
March 30, 2012 • Victor Nishio Yasuoka
Victor Gusukuma is from Lima, he is 36. He has lived in Japan since he finished school; He is married and has 2 young daughters who, along with his wife, are his reason for sharing life. He is fond of photography, reading is another of his hobbies. He has worked for Nissan for more than a decade. He has spent his entire family life in Japan. Topics: Nikkei identity, participation, distancing. VICTOR NISHIO: The Nikkei identity is something that I …
Conversations from a distance with Shana Kanashiro Arakaki
March 8, 2012 • Victor Nishio Yasuoka
Shana is a Fashion Designer and Consultant, with a degree in Clothing Design from the Center for Higher Fashion Studies. It is dedicated to Styling: design and manufacture of evening and bridal dresses as well as the design of creative women's footwear. She participated as a Fashion Designer for the Miss Nikkei 2011 beauty pageant. She publishes on her fashion blog “Ente Tendente” for the La República Publicaciones Group. Topics: identity, Nikkei youth, fashion. VICTOR : Young Nikkei people seek …
Conversations from a distance with Kaori Flores Yonekura
Jan. 19, 2012 • Victor Nishio Yasuoka
Conversations at a distance are generally tinged with inconsequentiality - unless it is a discussion - but it is up to each person to maintain an optimal height so that opinion and information become sources of interest that generate curiosity, debate, other opinions and comments.For this first conversation, I asked Kaori Flores Yonekura, a Venezuelan filmmaker who spent a few days in Peru, months ago, if she was interested in generating opinions digitally and thousands of kilometers away (we do …
winter walk
Sept. 20, 2011 • Victor Nishio Yasuoka
Peru Shizuoka Kenjinkai took its usual winter walk this year, 2011. I have attended several in the past decades, also in summer and the typical celebrations such as Mother's and Father's Day, New Year's and the occasional swearing-in. I am 34, by paternal inheritance I am part of this Kenjinkai, on the maternal side it would be from Fukuoka although I have always seen the participation of the whole family in the first (which seems "normal" to me), just as …
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