The study of migrant communities in Japan has been relatively rare, with an emphasis on scholarly and journalistic publications on Asian and, in some cases, Euro–North American populations. Despite the recent growth of populations of other groups, such as Latin Americans, there are few works about them. Araceli Tinajero's book is a welcome contribution to a budding area of study, especially in the Spanish language. Although large audiences would be interested in migration studies that include Spanish-speaking populations and allow the exploration of multiculturalism and transculturality in Japan, as well as social research on Japan published in Spanish, little has been published on these subjects.
Historia cultural de los hispanohablantes en Japón constructs a history of Spanish-speaking people in Japan through the cultural production of selected academics and ordinary citizens who, in most cases, have migrated in pursuit of better living conditions since 1991. In that year, as Tinajero explains,...
