Dr. Ota Mishima, a second-generation Mexican of Japanese ancestry, was a Professor at the Center of Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México in México City. She obtained her Ph.D. in history at the National Autonomous University of México in 1982. She had published extensively on people of Japanese descendants in México. She also collaborated with Japanese scholars to develop Japanese-language materials for Spanish-speaking people.

*Professor Maria Elena Ota Mishima will be sorely missed and long remembered for her scholarship and the pioneering contributions she made to our knowledge of immigration history and Nikkei Studies. Her latest publications was Destino México: un estudio de las migraciones asiaticas a México, siglos XIX y XX(El Colegio de México, 1997). Further inquires could be made to El Colegio de México, where Professor Mishima was a Professor of History at the Center of Asian and African Studies at:

El Colegio de México C.E.A.
Camino al Ajusco, #20
Col. Pedregal de Sta. Teresa
México, D.F. 01000