When we hear the word "immigration," some may imagine someone moving from one country to another. In the immigration history of each country, the stories of people who settled there tend to be recorded, but the stories of people who moved back and forth, or moved between countries and regions, can sometimes be hard to see due to the cultures and languages ​​in between.

Living in both the Japanese and Japanese American communities in Los Angeles, and through my work at the Japanese American National Museum, I have had many opportunities to meet people with rich individual stories that differ from the stereotypical images historically associated with terms such as "Nisei," "Sansei," and "Kibei." In this series, I would like to record the stories of the postwar Japanese immigrants who returned to America and whose first language was mainly Japanese, whom I met in these environments.