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Fernando Nakasone Nozoe, Nikkei Yonsei born in Lima (1965), is a systems engineer with a Master's degree in Marketing and Business Management, an MBA and Applied Neuroscience. He is currently a professor at the UTP Graduate School. He has been President of Nishihara Chojinkai for 10 years, Vice President of the Okinawan Association of Peru and Director of Organization of the Peruvian-Japanese Association. He is currently President of the Nishihara Chojinkai Centennial Commission of Peru.

Ana Karina Martinez Lorenzo is a graduate of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana with a degree in History, with an interest in Japanese immigration and military history. She has researched the Japanese internment camps in the U.S. and participated in academic colloquia on migration, allowing her to delve deeper into topics related to Japanese history and culture. She is passionate about historical outreach and seeks to contribute to knowledge about the history of the Nikkei community through research and writing.

Born in Foz do Iguaçu, western Paraná state, Brazil, he is the second son of Harry and Ligia Daijó. Married to Adriana Rodrigues Daijó for over 20 years, no children. Graduated in Law from the Bauru Law School - Toledo Educational Institution - ITE (06/24/1995), he began his professional career with the Public Prosecutor's Office of the state of São Paulo, in the District of Bauru/SP, under the guidance of Dr. Heitor Evaristo Fabricio Costa and Dr. João Costa Gomes. Postgraduate degree in Strategic Business Management (Executive MBA) - University of São Paulo - USP (08/15/2012) and also in Forest Management - Federal University of Paraná - UFPR (05/03/2019). Bachelor's degree in History from Uninter. Author of the articles "The urgency of learning the Portuguese language for Japanese immigrants in Brazil in the 1940s", published in Caderno Intersaberes (Curitiba, v. 11, n. 33, p. 37-56, 2022) and "Passages from Takahide Daijó's life correlated with Tomoo Handa's work 'The Japanese Immigrant'", published in Caderno Intersaberes (Curitiba, v. 12, n. 40, p. 6-24, 2023) - both in partnership with Prof. Dr. André Luiz Moscaleski Cavazzani. He also wrote the article "Excerpts from the diary of Japanese immigrant Takahide Daijó related to his union with Rosa Kiguti". He also has an international certification in environmental auditing by IEMA, a participant of ORCID (Connecting Research and Researchers). In the first half of the 90s, he was the guitarist and vocalist of the rock band LEXHARE and in the second half, he was president of the Progressive Party in Foz do Iguaçu. Between 2004 and 2006, together with journalists Andye Iore and Fábio Linjardi, he wrote regularly for the "anti-news" blog Factorama. In 2015, in partnership with his brother, Hedryk Genson Daijó, he published the book: "An awakening: behind the scenes of a transplant" (Editora Eureka). A businessman, Harry has been a managing partner of the company Expoagro – Exportadora Agropecuária Ltda. for 30 years. He founded the companies Expoagro SA, Iguassu Agronegócios Ltda., Rádio Foz-Lago Comunicadora Ltda. and Arte Final Cosméticos Ltda. He also founded the Association of Young Iguaçu Broadcasting Entrepreneurs (AJEIR) and the Panorama Artistic-Cultural Association. He was a partner in the SPE Construction and Incorporation of the Omoiru Building Ltda. and in the companies Riobase Mining Ltda. and Daijó & Filhos Import and Commerce Ltda. He is a partner in the companies Sysmob Technologies Ltda., Biogranos Monitor, Itoman Asset Management Ltda., Amadeus Real Estate Development Ltda. and Figueira da Foz Real Estate Development Ltda.


Descendant of immigrant from Saga Prefecture. Electrical engineer Married, two children

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Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Ava Sakura is a Gosei living in the Greater Toronto Area and an undergraduate at Humber College, where she studies writing. Though she grew up knowing very little about her Japanese heritage, a foray into her family’s genealogy led her down a rabbit hole about Japanese Canadian history and public education in Ontario. Since then, Japanese Canadian history has become a major focus of her work. Ava’s writing on Japanese Canadian heritage won an Excellence in Storytelling award earlier this year.
Ava is currently a volunteer Assistant Editor with Discover Nikkei, where she is gaining experience with many aspects of our project and writing a series on her journey through her Japanese Canadian heritage. Stay tuned as we publish her articles over the next few months! Ava is also keeping busy this summer as Heritage Research and Collections Assistant at Toronto’s Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre.
How did you learn about Discover Nikkei? Why did you decide to become a volunteer?
In the third year of my writing degree, I did a deep dive into Japanese Canadian history. I learned a lot through scholarly writing and books, but even more through Canadian Discover Nikkei writers, whose stories extended past history books and academic papers into real, tangible experiences. The next logical step was to dive into this community through writing and reading, and as a volunteer, I get to do both!
Why is it important to you to share Japanese Canadian history with a wider audience?
It’s important to me that when someone wonders why we don’t have a Little Tokyo, they think about it more deeply than brushing it off as a coincidence. We’re often told that Canada’s one of the most diverse and inclusive countries in the world, but we don’t look back on what Canada once was, what it was founded on, or how we got here. The echoes of Japanese Canadian internment ring loudly in the scattered communities across the country, in our elders’ reluctance to tell their stories, and in the Yonsei and Gosei left with little family history to cling to. Knowing where they originated from is just as crucial as hearing them.
Are you a Nima*?
*The term “Nima” comes from combining Nikkei and nakama (Japanese for “colleagues”, or “fellows”, or “circle”).
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