Taku Aramasa

Born in Tokyo, Aramasa moved with his family to Manchukuo in 1940.

In 1980 he met his parents, from whom he had been separated, and started work on a photographic contribution to the effort of reuniting Japanese war orphans and their biological parents.

This work branched into the photography of people of Japanese descent in Hawai'i and South America.

[2] A Portrait of Japanese Immigrants to South America won the Domon Ken Award in 1986; Aramasa subsequently won various other awards.

[2] Aramasa has taught at Musashino Art University from 1993.

"Aramasa Taku Photographs – Apocalypse," Museum of Musashino Art University, Tokyo (2006)