Noriko Hayashi is a Japanese documentary photographer based in Tokyo. She has been exploring the relationship between Japan and North Korea for close to a decade and ‘Japanese Wives’ is the latest chapter of this long-term project.
‘Every time I remember that moment, I can’t help but cry. I was only twenty-one years old.’
A photoessay by Noriko Hayashi.
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