Gold medalist. Head of the Peruvian Karate Federation Eduardo Tokeshi: Plastic artist Tilsa Tsuchiya: Artist José Watanabe: Poet Arturo Yamasaki: Football referee, famous for officiating the Match of the Century in the 1970 FIFA World Cup Rafael Yamashiro: Peruvian Congressman and politician Cesar Ychikawa: Singer and economist Jaime Yoshiyama: Former Prime Minister, former Cabinet Minister, former Vice President and former President of the Peruvian Congress Carlos Yushimito (Yoshimitsu): Writer and analyst See also Asian Latin Americans Chinese Peruvians Japan–Peru relations Hirohito Ōta Notes References Other cited works Connell, Thomas. (2002). America's Japanese Hostages: The US Plan For A Japanese Free Hemisphere. Westport: Praeger-Greenwood. ; OCLC 606835431 Gardiner, Clinton Harvey. (1975). The Japanese and Peru. 1873-1973. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. ; OCLC 2047887 Gardiner, C. Harvey. (1981). Pawns in a Triangle of Hate: The Peruvian Japanese and the United States. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ; OCLC 164799077 Higashide, Seiichi. (2000). Adios to Tears: The Memoirs of a Japanese-Peruvian Internee in U.S. Concentration Camps. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ; OCLC 247923540 López-Calvo, Ignacio. (2009). One World Periphery Reads the Other. Knowing the 'Oriental' in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. 130–47. ; OCLC 473479607 Masterson, Daniel M. and Sayaka Funada-Classen. (2004), The Japanese in Latin America: The Asian American Experience. (View at Google Books) Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. ; External links Association website Asian Peruvian Japanese Latin American Ethnic groups in Peru Peru