Jose Genaro Kingo Nonaka, born Kingo Nonaka, was a Mexican combat medic during the Mexican Revolution and later became the first documentary photographer of Tijuana.
11 Facts About Kingo Nonaka
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Kingo Nonaka gets bored cultivating the land, and the school classroom feels suffocating to him, so he is always in search of new thrills.
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Kingo Nonaka emigrated to Mexico at age 17, accompanied by an older brother, Yinkuro and uncle, Shiotaro.
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In March 1911, Kingo Nonaka was visiting another Japanese immigrant when the Battle of Casas Grandes broke out.
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Kingo Nonaka participated in 14 combat operations during the Revolution: two with the forces of Francisco I Madero and 12 with the Northern Division commanded by Pancho Villa.
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Kingo Nonaka attained the rank of captain in the Batallon de Sanidad de la Division del Norte.
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Kingo Nonaka fell in love with a Mexican nurse named Petra Garcia Ortega and married her.
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Kingo Nonaka opened two photo studios in Tijuana and became a naturalized citizen in 1924.
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Kingo Nonaka donated more than 300 photos of early Tijuana to the Archivo Historico y la Sociedad de Historia de Tijuana.
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Kingo Nonaka was a founding member of the Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia.
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Kingo Nonaka died in 1977 and is interred in the Panteon Jardin, Mexico City.