Hacia un nuevo sol

by Mary Nancy Fukumoto Sato

"Outstanding study of the Japanese in Peru will remain the standard work for many years to come. The late author, a sociologist by training, approaches the work from a carefully constructed historical perspective, going back to the beginning of the Japanese presence as sugar workers in Peru's coastal haciendas in 1899. Calls upon sociological methods, weaving discussions of occupational patterns, diet, religious customs and family into this masterful work. Employing statistics from the Japanese community's self-census of 1989, offers important information on intermarriage and the retention of traditional customs through four generations of Japanese in Peru. Concludes with a preliminary assessment of the Peruvian Japanese who have migrated to Japan in the past decade to serve as 'guest workers,' largely in factories and other blue collar jobs. Highly recommended to all scholars of the Japanese in Latin America and of immigration in general"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.