Video to show settlers’ post-war pains

UK-Japan News March 2017

Named after forget-me-nots, a flower recognised as a symbol of constancy, the Wasurena-gusa Project has been created to preserve the memories of Japanese people who settled in Britain soon after World War II, the Japan Times reported on 14 February.

Organised by the Japan Association, the project’s aim is to record in a series of video interviews the history of the Japanese community, whose members made Britain home beginning in the 1950s.

The interviews will look at some of the hardships that people faced as they arrived in Britain, and their reasons for moving there.