Nostalgia in Tokyo 5 - Capturing Nostalgia

Nostalgia is emerging in Asian cities as a response to dizzying rates of modernisation. This story, comprising 5 parts featuring short videos, seeks to uncover what nostalgia does and how nostalgia is mobilised in Tokyo.
 
Part 5 of the story explores Capturing Nostalgia.

Nostalgia is simultaneously a construction of the past and a condition of the present. It is most compelling when there are remnants of the past that constantly remind one of the time when things were different. These include artefacts, surviving architecture, images, texts and other records of the past.

The store of collective knowledge and clues to the past — often curated and exhibited in cultural institutions — then becomes the inheritance of those who succeed and are transmitted intergenerationally.

The final video focuses on Ōme city in west Tokyo which is well-known as a Shōwa town. Featuring photographer Miyazaki Tadashi, who is renowned for his photography of the Shōwa period, and Showa Retro Goods Museum, which posits Sumie-chō Shopping Street as a Shōwa town, the video dives into the processes behind the curation and transmission of Shōwa nostalgia.