was a Japanese freelance writer and Zen monk. Hirohito was a researcher of Japanese graves and missionary history in

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. He was the Japanese editor for the Japanese-language Peru newspaper ''Peru Shinpō''. He graduated from Kokugakuin University with a degree in

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. Many of his articles dealt with Japanese Peruvians, Japanese Buddhism, and Peruvians in Japan.

Publications

*''Sōtōshū Jion-ji (perū kyōwakoku) ihai list'' *''Shirarezaru Nihonjin'' *''Nombres en japonés - Nihongo no Namae''

External links

Interview with Hirohito Ota
in

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