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Okinawan discrimination
Barbara Kawakami February 19, 2004
Like Okinawan people, those days they were sadly discriminated. I remember that they lived in …
Japanese immigration with an Okinawan face (Spanish)
Doris Moromisato February 26, 2008
(Spanish) Japanese immigration to Peru was symbolically Japanese, but humanly Okinawan. Meaning, the Japanese symbolism …
The Okinawan idiosyncrasies (Spanish)
Doris Moromisato February 26, 2008
(Spanish) I am an expression of the Okinawan culture. Recently when I visited Okinawa… for …
Ambassador of Good Will (Spanish)
Doris Moromisato February 26, 2008
(Spanish) Well, I thought it was a title… I thought the Ambassador of Good Will …
Feminist, ecologist, Buddhist… activist (Spanish)
Doris Moromisato February 26, 2008
(Spanish) I am a militant person. I like activism. That is the reason why I …
General reasons why people left Japan for Peru
Michelle Yamashiro August 30, 2018
I don’t know what the attraction of Peru was versus the United States, but I …
Great grandfather Asato was a sumo wrestler
Michelle Yamashiro August 30, 2018
He came to Peru because there was…there was competition, great competition between sumo wrestlers in …
Grandfather loved to tell her stories of her great-grandfather Arakaki
Michelle Yamashiro August 30, 2018
So he told me my grandma Arakaki’s side, that’s the grandpa that was college educated, …
Prosecution of Japanese Peruvians during the war
Michelle Yamashiro August 30, 2018
The only people that were really targeted were folks who were in a community leader…similar …
Parents leaving Peru to move to California
Michelle Yamashiro August 30, 2018
In the eighties Peru’s economy wasn’t as great as it is now. And so in …
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