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Discover Nikkei is JANM’s community-based web project sharing stories and the experiences of Nikkei around the world. “Nima” are members of the Discover Nikkei online community. Hailing from all around the world, they each bring unique experiences and perspectives to the site’s rich archive of stories.
Nima Voices is an interview series where we uplift our Nima through brief and enlightening interviews. In the seventeenth episode, guest host Enrique Higa, a Lima-based journalist, will interview pediatrician and Professor of Medicine Graciela Nakachi, who has written for Discover Nikkei about her father’s immigration to Peru and her upbringing as a Peruvian Nisei. Their conversation will explore the Peruvian Nikkei experience, touching on personal, familial, and community histories.
Read Graciela’s articles on Discover Nikkei before tuning in for this live interview and Q&A on the Discover Nikkei YouTube channel or on Facebook. Log into your YouTube or Facebook account to post questions for the Q&A!
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Graciela Nakachi Morimoto
Graciela Nakachi Morimoto was born in Huancayo, Peru. At the age of four, her parents decided to live in Lima, where she studied at the Jishuryo Japanese Primary School. Graciela earned advanced degrees in medicine and pediatrics at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, and the University of Kobe, Japan. She has worked as a pediatrician at the Policlínico and the Centenario Peruano Japonesa Clinic and as head of the Emergency and Critical Areas Department at the National Institute of Children's Health in Lima. Currently, she is a senior professor at the UNMSM Faculty of Medicine. Graciela is fond of reading, music, and painting.
Enrique Higa Sakuda
Enrique Higa Sakuda is a Peruvian Sansei, journalist, and Lima-based correspondent for the International Press, a Spanish-language weekly published in Japan. Higa is co-editor of the Japanese Peruvian Association (APJ) magazine, Kaikan.