'Chinatown Beat': The act of telling the story is in itself political
Apr 24, 2021 As a photographer, filmmaker and actress living in New York City during a global pandemic, Yuko Torihara spent most of last year reassessing her entire value system. “I really focused on my mental and physical health,” she tells The Japan Times via video chat from her Manhattan apartment. “I changed the way I ate, how I communicated with people, the way I consumed the news on TV.” It was, she says, a way of surviving a strange and terrible time. When the pandemic hit, Torihara could have returned to Tokyo where her parents lived. She was born in Tokyo, but spent ...
Source: japantimes.co.jp