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If the question about diasporic identities is already challenging and problematic, the case of the Argentine artist, translator, editor and cultural agent of Japanese descendent Kazuya Sakai only adds more condiments. The act of mapping, therefore, can be understood as the act of bringing up to front those questions.

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Kazuya Sakai was born in in Buenos Aires but at the age of seven he moved to Tokyo where he received his entire formal education, later graduating from Waseda University where he pursued studies in Literature and Philosophy. In , without mastering the Spanish language, he decided to move back to Buenos Aires where he had a pioneer role in promoting Japanese culture.

As a translator, his work is of mayor importance for the dissemination of Japanese literature in the Hispanic world. During his stay in the New York years of post-pictoric abstraction and pop art, his work made a radical shift towards geometrical abstraction and became close to jazz music, one of his major influences for his new productions.

His displacement to New York, on the other hand, gives an insight of both the Argentine years where Internalization was fomented through a complex framework of institutions, curators, prizes and exhibitions and the American policies of fomenting Latin American Art as a political policy for creating an idea of Pan-Americanism, where art played a major role in spreading US influence along the continent in Post-Cuban revolution times.

In this city, he joined the editorial committee of Plural magazine directed by Octavio Paz. Sakai joined the working group from the magazine since its beginning -the first number of Plural includes his translation into Spanish from El libro del ocio from Kenko- and works both as editor-in-chief for the visual arts section and illustrator.

In he exhibited Pinturas. Jonathas de Andrade. Kazuya Sakai Luisina Gentile.