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Lima is known as the Gastronomical Capital of the Americas. A center of immigration and the center of the Spanish Viceroyalty, chefs incorporated dishes brought by the conquistadors and waves of immigrants: African, European, Chinese and Japanese. [97]
Although there had been ongoing tensions between non-Japanese and Japanese Peruvians, the situation was drastically exacerbated by the war. [12] Rising tensions ultimately led to a series of discriminatory laws being passed in 1936, the results of which included stigmatization of Japanese immigrants as "bestial," "untrustworthy," "militaristic," and "unfairly" competing with Peruvians for wages.
Monument to the Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Lima. In July 1990, Alberto Fujimori became the first Peruvian President of Japanese origin. Some months after President Fujimori's election, several Japanese and Peruvians of Japanese origin were assaulted, kidnapped or killed by Peru's two main guerrilla groups, the Shining Path and the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. [5]
Peru is known to have one of the best cuisines in the world. The capital, Lima, is home to Central Restaurante, which is one of the World's Best Restaurants and serves various Peruvian dishes from each geographical part of the country, the Costa (coast, Sierra (mountains) and Selva (rainforest).
The Lima culture was an indigenous civilization which existed in modern-day Lima, Peru during the Early Intermediate Period, extending from roughly 100 to 650. This pre-Incan culture, which overlaps with surrounding Paracas, Moche, and Nasca civilizations, was located in the desert coastal strip of Peru in the Chillon, Rimac and Lurin River valleys.
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A family that is well-known demographically and historically, the north branch suffered from the expansion of Quechua, while the south branch still has many speakers today. Northern Aru: Jaqaru: Yauyos: Kawki: Yauyos: Southern Aru: Aymara: Puno: Aruanas. A small family with languages in Brazil and Peru.
Peru and Japan first established relations in 1873, with Peru being the first Latin American country to establish diplomatic relations with the East Asian state. [2] [3] The Imperial Legation that had been established in Lima was closed in 1942 due to the rupture of relations between both countries as a result of World War II. [4]