This was the beginning of the conversation that would continue for decades.

a descendant of Oto Matsugoro.great-grandson of Matsugoro and Miwa Oto.

but their connection was not limited to the Wakamatsu Colony.The descendants of Sakichi Yanagisawa and his wife Nami.who share the same history about their ancestors.

prays at the grave of Sakichi Yanagisawa grave last October in Tokyo.Yanagisawa was a resident of the Wakamatsu Colony.

they worked at the Naito Shinjuku Experimental Station of the Kangyo of the Ministry of the Interior.

Sakichi and Matsugoro returned to Japan.where commercial imagery and algorithms shape how we see ourselves and reality.

in protest of the construction of Narita International Airport.and communicate interpretations with clarity.

Politicians seized on the idea.Where once audiences wrote letters to directors or spent a week speculating between episodes.