Hard work won them a place in a diverse culture – Little-known Japanese-Mexican community endures despite a world war’s injustices
Tagged: Tijuana
Genaro Nonaka remembers the parties at his house when he was a child, parties in which Japanese intermingled with Spanish, where carne asada was served alongside steamed rice.
“The elders spoke Japanese, but us kids used to play around speaking Spanish to each other,” says Genaro Nonaka, the 77-year-old son of a Japanese father and a Mexican mother.
He said he’s proud to be Nisei, a second-generation Japanese living in Tijuana. His father, José Genaro Kingo Nonaka, was a Japanese immigrant who arrived in Tijuana in the early 1920s and became the city’s first official photographer. “*
*From: www.signonsandiego.com
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