tunafish
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- 11 Jun 2023
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I first want to start by saying that I want to preserve as much respect for this family, and will only be sharing photos of IDs and addresses privately once asked. So long as it helps me find this woman and her family. I would just feel weird for sharing another's valuable information right away haha.
I currently have a photo album documenting a woman's early school years (and possibly young adulthood?) most likely dated within the 1960's. There are pictures with friends, and what I believe are her family. I only know this through using Google Translates camera function. Not everything translates though, so if you're curious on translating the rest, that would be wonderful!
How did I acquire it?
Yesterday, in the corner of a flea market stand located in Luxembourg, I had found a box of lost Japanese family photos (the stand I was in was particularly Japanese themed.) and along with that were albums that seemed to all belong to families years ago, lost in some bin in Europe. This album has on the front of it "I will never forget the past" and seemed to have the most writing and pictures intact inside. Given that I am moving to Japan in the fall, I hope that I may return this album. I suspect that this album is a part of a more complete set, since this only documents an early part of this woman's life and primarily revolves around her years in school from elementary to high school (possibly a small amount beyond).
Who is it?
Atsuko Kawaguchi. Born December 7th, 1943 (or that's what Google Translate says). I identified through a middle school entrance exam ID, a small handful of pay stubs, and an emergency card, all found within this album. On the emergency card (which is the only document in English) has an address leading to Honmachida, Tokyo.
I believe the address is old and this, along with lots of older Japanese addresses, aren't showing up on maps anymore. I believe this due to an older thread on here looking for someone and they were directed to an old map layout of Tokyo with older addresses that have changed. But I couldn't find Honmachida, probably because I'm an American with little to no knowledge of Japanese language.
Address layout is like this:
XXXX Honmachida
Machida-shi
Tokyo, Japan
And the telephone number layout is this: (0XXXX)XXXX
If anyone has some insight in older Japanese phone numbers and addresses, or can help me look through an older map, please reply! And if anyone would like images of the documents to help me continue this search, amazing! Anything helps, and I hope that I may return this album and its valuables to its rightful owner and next of kin. She seems to be a very happy, and very loved person. Thanks for reading, friends
I currently have a photo album documenting a woman's early school years (and possibly young adulthood?) most likely dated within the 1960's. There are pictures with friends, and what I believe are her family. I only know this through using Google Translates camera function. Not everything translates though, so if you're curious on translating the rest, that would be wonderful!
How did I acquire it?
Yesterday, in the corner of a flea market stand located in Luxembourg, I had found a box of lost Japanese family photos (the stand I was in was particularly Japanese themed.) and along with that were albums that seemed to all belong to families years ago, lost in some bin in Europe. This album has on the front of it "I will never forget the past" and seemed to have the most writing and pictures intact inside. Given that I am moving to Japan in the fall, I hope that I may return this album. I suspect that this album is a part of a more complete set, since this only documents an early part of this woman's life and primarily revolves around her years in school from elementary to high school (possibly a small amount beyond).
Who is it?
Atsuko Kawaguchi. Born December 7th, 1943 (or that's what Google Translate says). I identified through a middle school entrance exam ID, a small handful of pay stubs, and an emergency card, all found within this album. On the emergency card (which is the only document in English) has an address leading to Honmachida, Tokyo.
I believe the address is old and this, along with lots of older Japanese addresses, aren't showing up on maps anymore. I believe this due to an older thread on here looking for someone and they were directed to an old map layout of Tokyo with older addresses that have changed. But I couldn't find Honmachida, probably because I'm an American with little to no knowledge of Japanese language.
Address layout is like this:
XXXX Honmachida
Machida-shi
Tokyo, Japan
And the telephone number layout is this: (0XXXX)XXXX
If anyone has some insight in older Japanese phone numbers and addresses, or can help me look through an older map, please reply! And if anyone would like images of the documents to help me continue this search, amazing! Anything helps, and I hope that I may return this album and its valuables to its rightful owner and next of kin. She seems to be a very happy, and very loved person. Thanks for reading, friends
