Vivir para narrar lo invisible: una conversación con Ritsuko Kudo
No. 10 (2025-11-21)Author(s)
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María Camila Neira VillegasUniversidad de Ritsumeikan
Abstract
Japanese journalist Ritsuko Kudo has devoted much of her life to telling the stories of those who are often kept at the margins: children living on the streets, young people who have faced various forms of social and political violence, and communities that, with very little, hold on to their dignity and solidarity. Her career, which began with a university thesis in Mexico and has since expanded to several Latin American countries, moves between denunciation and hope. In this conversation, she speaks to us about her understanding of solidarity —in contrast with a Japan shaped more by money than by attention to the individual—, about what she observes in comparison with marginalized communities in Latin America, as well as the challenges journalism faces in the twenty-first century and the message she always repeats to those who dream of telling reality.