Taku Aramassa

Background

Taku Aramassa was born on August 15, 1936 in Tokyo, Japan.

Education

Aramasa moved with his family to Manchukuo in 1940. In 1948 he moved to Sakata, Yamagata. He graduated from Musashino Art School (now Musashino Art University) in 1960, and set up a design company in which he was an art director, but became a freelance in 1970.

Career

Taku Aramassa worked as a fashion photographer in Paris from 1973 to 1976. 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. Aramasa has taught at Musashino Art University from 1993.

Works

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  • Harukanaru sokoku: Satsuei 1984-nen

    (Japanese Edition)

  • Taku Aramasa 2014
  • Aramasa Taku photographs

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Membership

• Japan Photographers' Society , Japan

• Tokyo Designers' Space , Tokyo