Story Photographs

When I was small, my family used to live in a tiny apartment in a very old, half dilapidated building. It was actually the oldest among the collection of similar old apartment buildings which constituted the community where we lived in. This collection of apartment buildings were built shortly after the WW2, and its neighbourhood […]

In the second year of my high school, I was going to school each day looking forward to seeing one friend in my class. The presence of this friend lightened up my otherwise very sad day in the classroom, and the best moment of my day was when we ate lunch together in a hidden

The spring I graduated from university, I organized a special solo trip to Europe calling it my “grand tour.” Among the places I visited was Paris, France. I stayed at my friend’s house in the outskirt of Paris, and I spent about five days exploring this famous capital city of France. Unfortunately, my friend could

When I was little, I had two very close friends who were born in the same month as me and whom I had known since when I was about two years old. The three of us always played together. With these two girls, I could share anything about what was happening in my daily life,

It was several years ago when I spent a summer with a beautiful family in Edmonton that I met the very first dog friend of my life. Prior to my arrival, I was told that the family had a young female dog called Nika. To confess the truth, I had never had a dog in

When I was six years old, my family moved to the suburb, and I was transferred to another kindergarten. I felt very sad about the move, since I had to leave behind all of my close friends and playmates. Especially after the loss of my younger brother, the last thing I wanted was to be

This is a story that I heard from an old family friend, who was also a fatherly figure to me. One evening, the whole family was having dinner around the table when he started to tell this story. He was a college student in north England. As a young student, following the trend at the

It was when I was about nine years old. One afternoon, I was visiting a shopping mall in town with my mother. After a long shopping, we went to a bakery located at the basement of the building. I was quite tired by then. Looking at all kinds of tasty-looking bread that my mother was

Two years ago, when I visited Rome, Italy for the first time, on the very last day of my two and a half months stay, I decided to go to the famous Trevi Fountain to throw a coin so that I could come back to this beautiful city that I had come to love so

The year when I turned three, my younger brother came into the world and I became an elder sister. It was late June, during the rainy season in Japan. Hydrangeas were blossoming everywhere. One rainy morning, I stood in front of our house with my grandmothers and my friends’ mothers, seeing my mother and father