[camporeale]

Hey guys, i emailed the city of where one of the pictures was located and this was the response i received.

We researched the Matsushima family and in particular, Mr. Yoshimitsu Matsushima, whose name appears on the back of the photograph. We think that it's wonderful that you thought of looking up the family to return the photographs.

However, as far as we can tell, Mr. Matsushima and his wife moved to Kumamoto Prefecture, in Southern Japan, shortly after the war. Sadly, Mr. Matsushima passed away about 10 years ago and his wife some time thereafter. They had no children, according to our investigation.

We apologize that we don't have any other leads on surviving family members or anyway to investigate further.


Sincerely,


Isidro de Prat
Coordinator for Int'l Relations
Wakayama City

-- that is for the one picture with the single guy in it, right?