lived in Cuba a Japanese colony whose existence led to the establishment in 1927 of the Japanese Society of Cuba, residing in Maloja 29 between Los Angeles and Ray, then 57, Centro Habana, led by its chief manager Mr. Hidiji Kato, who might well be Hideichi Kato, a resident in 1941 in Diez de Octubre No. 287, Jesús del Monte. In January of that year was the Japanese Society of instruction and recreation Showa Kai, O'Reilly residing at 80 (present 468) corner Villegas, whose board was composed by Mr. Keitaro Ohira, president, Kitaro Ichikawa, vice president, and Tadao Ohira, treasurer. 80 Bishop's house, now 466, Villegas corner, where in 1932 lay the Japanese goods store owned by Keitaro Ohira and eight years after the hardware store the Rising Sun, J. Ohira and Co., O'Reilly 102, current 522, whose ground floor had left an establishment devoted to spin silk and hardware called the Flower of Tokyo, by John Koitsu Hayashi, while the right was occupied by Riichi Sakakibara, Villegas house 115, Ohira Tadao home, commission merchant.
The original nucleus of this settlement should emerge the arrival of Y. Osuna to Havana on September 9, 1898 aboard the steamer Orizaba, with plans to settle in the Island, who was followed by others of their nationality such as Kobayashi and J. Tomehachi Ohira. The population census next year interventionist U.S. government, Japanese citizens are registered eight, including seven males and one female. Two of them (one man and one woman), residing in the city of Havana and Matanzas 3 on, while the remaining three were rooted separately in the provinces of Santa Clara, Puerto Principe and Santiago de Cuba.
is possible that Japanese immigrants Cuba had reached covered false documents issued in China or Cuba. On 27 April 1924, Cuban police magazine and major newspapers in the capital spread the news that 14 Chinese merchants of Havana were engaged in illegal trade in their fellow citizens. In a part of the Judicial Police Chief was stated that the ports of the island, particularly that of Havana, came a lot of Asian immigrants in numbers that exceeded 15 000, by agreement between the consular officials of the Republic of Cuba and certain Chinese speculators, using false affidavits in which they are consigned to the status of students and the many Asian traders entering the country
political and military circumstances could pave the way for Japanese citizens need to travel surreptitiously. It was common for name changes occur in personal and political reasons, which made many families Many were forced to travel abroad trying to evade the pursuit of tai Kempen (imperial secret police), for the simple fact that belonged or were members of religious sects and Ichirei Omoto.
Shimonoshi The Treaty of 1895 which ended the Sino-Japanese Korea may well facilitate this approach, because under that China was to cede the islands Taiwan and Pescadores to Japan, who served in those territories which included a rigorous occupation Japanization cultural level. At the beginning of World War II (1939-1945) the Japanese made Taiwan a part of his empire.
Cuba had diplomatic relations with Japan, which had begun with the official appointment of 17 July 1918, a Cuban Legation in Eastern nation and the 23rd of that month was appointed minister of Cuba in Japan Guillermo Blanck and Menocal.
In early 1919 the capital was established firm Nippon Cuba & Trading Co. Ltd., established in O'Reilly number 72 (now 458), between Avocado and Villegas, who under the title "Japanese art" marketed fine porcelain, silk tapestry embroidered with gold and silver, sandals and slippers, mats, etc.. The following year, on August 6, 1920, visited Havana Japanese cruiser Kasuga
The historian and journalist Herminio Portell Vilá revealed in an article published in December 1941, Japan was one of the last nations to recognize the independence of Cuba, and it was not until Gerardo Machado began her first steps anti-American nationalists and the Japanese rulers decided to have diplomatic relations normal in our country, and came to negotiate a treaty of trade and migration-win for their nation. In late January 1932 Debuchi Katsuji Excellency, Ambassador of Japan in Washington is accredited as a minister of his nation in Havana, and was succeeded in office by Tomoo Watanabe, who in turn was replaced by Takahara Ito whose arrival in Havana came in April 1935.
Significantly, in November 1932 visited Havana with his wife, the Japanese artist Tsuguharu Fujita, one of the world's most famous artists based in Paris. The Cuban capital was one of the scales American tour that also included Bolivia, Peru, Argentina and Brazil, where there were large settlements of Japanese immigrants. The painter Fujita stayed at the Plaza hotel, exhibited his works in an impromptu exhibition at the Lyceum, visited the cigar factory and shared Por Larrañaga Cuban artists and intellectuals. Armando Maribona interviewed him and made him a caricature, which gave him amicably. Fujita posed for the magazine Bohemia and gave him the photo
Fujita Tsuguharu
In December 1941 the government of Cuba declared war on Japan as a nation member of the fascist axis were also Germany and Italy, and immediately ordered the arrest and detention Corrections the subjects of those nations. On the occasion of the declaration of hostilities former Lt. Rafael Reyna published an article in which it states that for more than twenty years Japanese fishermen were still fishing off the coasts of Cuba and living on them, first in Batabano, then in Cienfuegos, while some farmers were established in Isla de Pinos. Rafael Reyna said he had been observed that there was a military headquarters in each group component of the Japanese colony, which always remained in touch even though some were not located in areas with good roads. At that time the Japanese immigrants were distributed in the then existing 6 provinces and Isla de Pinos, tied a large part of them to farming of various crops on farms and sugar mills.
By:
Rafael Fernández Moya, Cultural Relations Specialist Habaguanex SA Tourism Company, attached to the Office of the Historian of Havana City.
Contributed by:
Cuban Association of Daito Ryu Aiki Bujutsu
Havana, December 2009.
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