Araceli Tinajero

Araceli Tinajero is professor of Hispanic literatures at The City College of New York/CUNY and the CUNY Graduate Center. Before joining CUNY, Araceli taught Japanese at The University of Wales in Great Britain and Spanish at Yale. She is the co-founder of the Mexico Studies Group at the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies and the founder of the Colección Mexicana/The Mexican Collection at the CCNY Libraries. Tinajero is the author of Orientalismo en el Modernismo hispanoamericano, Kokoro, una mexicana en Japón (Eng. Kokoro: A Mexican Woman in Japan), and El lector de tabaquería (Eng. El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader).

A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan

December 13, 2024April 7, 2021 By Araceli Tinajero, Koichi Hagimoto and Zelideth María Rivas

Beginning in 1990, thousands of Spanish speakers emigrated to Japan. A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan focuses on the intellectuals, literature, translations, festivals, cultural associations, music (bolero, tropical music, and pop, including reggaeton), dance (flamenco, tango and salsa), radio, newspapers, magazines, libraries, and blogs produced in Spanish, in Japan, by Latin Americans and Spaniards who have lived in that country over the last three decades.