Things Remembered and Things Forgotten'If we want to understand what has been lost to time, there is no way other than through the exercise of imagination imagination applied with delicate rather than broad strokes'. So wrote the award winning Japanese author Kyoko Nakajima of her story, 'Things Remembered and Things Forgotten', a piece that illuminates, as if by throwing a switch, the layers of wartime devastation that lie just below the surface of Tokyo's insistently modern culture. The

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