The people Wakayama famous, infamous and interesting. Learn about the people in your prefecture and neighborhood.
Martin St-Pierre
The history of westerners in Wakayama Prefecture has been untold for far too long. How many of you, Japanese and foreign residents, know about this seemingly unimportant group of outsiders that have played important roles in the shaping of this great prefecture? Perhaps too few. (more)
Posted in December 2005
Jane Curbishley
Even from a distance I feel oddly connected to the WIN International Newsletter and certainly saddened to know this is the
final edition. (more)
Posted in December 2005
Colin Mateme
After almost a year in Japan, I decided to visit my brethren in the Republic of South Africa. This I wanted to do for a number of reasons. First and most obvious, that I was homesick. (more)
Posted in October 2005
Colin Mateme
After almost half a century of Apartheid rule (1947 to 1994) and more than two hundred years of white supremacy in South Africa, the Republic of South Africa as we know it today was born on the 10th of May 1994. Nelson Mandela would become its first democratically elected president. (more)
Posted in June 2005
Martin St-Pierre
Sawako Ariyoshi was born in Wakayama city and has been described by J. Thomas Rimer in his Reader’s guide to Japanese Literature as perhaps “one of the finest post-war Japanese writers”. (more)
Posted in October 2004
Martin St-Pierre
Thirty years after the first bread in Japan was made at the Kimuraya bakery in Tokyo’s Ginza district, Kichibei Nakata fired up his oven and produced Wakayama’s first substitute to Japan’s staple food, rice.
(more)
Posted in August 2004
Megumi Hashimoto
The Kumano road in Kishu, present-day Wakayama Prefecture, used to be called in ancient times an area of “Ants visiting Kumano”. Many people, pure or not, dignified and/or not dignified, walked on what is now called the Ancient Road to Kumano. (more)
Posted in August 2004
by Joseph Cronin
Seinosuke Oishi was a doctor in Shingu, Wakayama Prefecture, whose socialist beliefs led to his execution as a result of the High Treason Incident (taigyaku-jiken) of 1910. (more)
Posted in April 2004
by Martin St-Pierre
It is often said that the people doing the most significant research and work for society are the ones getting the least recognition. Sadly, recognition only comes long after the actual work and research has contributed to society. (more)
Posted in October 2003
by Sylvia Goodwin
We had spent over 30 years of our lives working in conventional jobs so it was time to break out and try life according to our own resources, notably without working and with the soul aim of enjoying ourselves. (more)
Posted in August 2003
Chorus Palette is a 42-member Wakayama city amateur women?s choir established since October 1997. Directed by Yuko Sonomura, an experienced choral conductor, the ensemble has won several prizes. Next January, they will perform Dvorak?s lesser-known Stabat Mater for women?s choir... (more)
Posted in August 2003
Martin St-Pierre
Nishimura Isaku was one of Japan?s most significant post-Meiji restoration renaissance men. Born in September 1884 in Shingu city to devout protestant parents, Isaku was named after Abraham?s son Isaac. (more)
Posted in June 2003
Martin St-Pierre
Born in Wakayama, Japan, at the turn of the century, Yuzuru Sugimoto (1900-1990) left his home in 1919 to start a new life in America. There he reunited with his parents who had earlier settled in the central California farming town of Hanford, where he went by a new American name: Henry. (more)
Posted in April 2003
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