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Journal written in thin strips of birch bark and stove soot dissolved in water
Maizuru City, Kyoto Prefecture, is preparing to submit a nomination for "Siberian Internment and Repatriation-Related Materials" for registration as a Memory of the World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2015. Maizuru City, with its beautiful rias coastline facing the Sea of Japan, saw 664,531 people, or about 10% of the 6.6 million repatriates, land there after the war. The people of Maizuru warmly welcomed the internees, who were forced to live in harsh conditions for many years. A journal written in water with thin strips of birch bark and stove soot. Photographed December 19, 2013, in Maizuru City, Kyoto Prefecture; published in the morning edition of January 8, 2014.
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