Dear Japanese: Children of War

"My photographic series Dear Japanese is a work-in-progress that documents the offspring of Japanese fathers and Dutch-Indonesian mothers, individuals who were born during World War II and who now live in the Netherlands. It is a work of subjective documentary assembled from a personal perspective, a visual record of compatriots in a foreign land. People who live abroad often develop fresh perspectives on their homelands, their new situations prompting them to face aspects of their personal identities. As an immigrant from a former enemy country, Japan, I can now share their pride in being Japanese, coupled with feelings of alienation and guilt." Miyuki Okuyama