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Nima of the month: August 2016

Journalist, co-editor of Kaikan magazine and correspondent for International Press

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125 years of Japanese immigration in Peru: history and memories
When my cousins ​​and my brother get together to eat on a holiday, we always remember the sushi tha…

July 7, 2024

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cooking cuisine families grandparents Japanese Peruvians Nikkei cuisine parents Peruvian Nikkei cuisine
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Nikkei Paraguayan Identity Center: History, memory, identity and legacy
“We wanted any place in America to come and live. We heard very nice things about Paraguay,” says R…

May 14, 2024

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community centers Encarnación generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan Japanese Association of Encarnacion (organization) Japanese language schools Japanese Paraguayans language schools migration Nikkei Paraguayan Identity Center Paraguay
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Juana Miyashiro: sensei and entrepreneur
His first student was his mother, an Okinawan immigrant. When she was a high school student, Juana …

April 1, 2024

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Chacra Cerro School education identity Juana Miyashiro Okinawans teachers teaching Uchinanchu
Chacra Cerro School education identity Juana Miyashiro Okinawans teachers teaching Uchinanchu
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President of the Peruvian-Japanese Association in a year for history
2024 will be a big year for the Nikkei community in Peru because it celebrates the 125th anniversar…

Feb. 12, 2024

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anniversaries immigration Japan Japanese Peruvian Association Japanese Peruvians Juan Carlos Nakasone Peru
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Growing up with the Nikkei community
Medical technologist Pedro Ruiz's relationship with the Nikkei community began in 1980, when he wa…

Jan. 10, 2024

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Japanese language newspapers journalism journalists laboratory technicians La Union School (Lima, Peru) medical technologists newspapers Pedro Ruiz Peru Peru Shimpo (newspaper)
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Sow in Japan, harvest in Peru
Jorge Vargas Tsuruda's first experience in Japan was amazing. He was a teenager (still in school) a…

Nov. 23, 2023

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dekasegi foreign workers identity Japan Nikkei in Japan Peru
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Kenzo Kobashigawa, the sensei of dekasegi past
For Peruvians over 45 years of age, 1989 was probably one of the worst years in the history of thei…

Sept. 27, 2023

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dekasegi foreign workers Japan Japanese languages Nikkei in Japan Peru
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Shigueko Unten, everyone's chodewa
The first thing that surprises you about Shigueko Unten is that she doesn't look anywhere near her …

Aug. 16, 2023

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Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952) Battle of Okinawa dekasegi foreign workers gateball (sport) generations Japan Nikkei in Japan Nisei Okinawa Prefecture Peru Shigueko Unten sports U.S. Occupation Army World War II
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Augusto Ikemiyashiro, memories of a life dedicated to service
Augusto Ikemiyashiro does not seem like a man of this era. Their vocation for service and their st…

June 21, 2023

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Augusto Ikemiyashiro Japan Okinawa Prefecture Peru
Augusto Ikemiyashiro Japan Okinawa Prefecture Peru
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Ginyu Igei: the teacher, the lighthouse
Ginyu Igei arrived in Peru with the halo of sensei. A teacher in his native Okinawa, the 26-year-o…

May 18, 2023

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agriculture education farmers generations Ginyu Igei Hawai'i immigrants immigration Issei Japan Japanese language schools language schools Lima migration Nanko Gakuen Okinawans Okinawa Prefecture Peru schools teachers teaching Uchinanchu United States
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