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In 1902, two young British girls, Dorothy and Marjorie moved to Japan. The girls and their mother, Lydia, were travelling to join their father, George Squire, who had been working for the Senju Paper Company in Japan since 1898. For the next two years the family lived, worked and made friends within the Japanese community in Kokura, a town on Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s main islands. After the family left Japan, they settled in Sunderland. This exhibition tells their story using the objects which they donated to the Oriental Museum more than 70 years after they left Japan. It also tells the story of the Moriyama family, pioneering Japanese photographers. Photographs taken at the Moriyama Studio offer glimpses into the lives of both families and friendships that endured across continents.