Princess Mako marks 120th anniv. of Japanese immigration to Peru

Mako is cute as heck

Many's a story about Brazilian Japanese being brought up believing Japan was the mother country & having a sad and rude awakening when they arrived in Japan only to be treated like second class citizens.

There's a decent novel - Brazil Maru by Karen Tei Yamashita about emigration to Brazil, back at the turn of the 20th century.

I imagine there's a few Peruvian novels, concerning similar subject matter, if anyone has any recommendations?

It's also why they went to Brazil en masse, where they were allowed to immigrate and become coffee farmers, given that wages in Brazil and Peru at that time were high than that of Japan... nearly until the war, actually.