The thread that ties parents and children feeds a loom of communication, weaving past to present and present to future. The information society has broadened the horizontal world but we've neglected the hopes of its vertical axis. Together, parents and children can change the world by being just what they should be, a true family. I hope people will think about that on OYAKO DAY.

To strengthen the bonds between parents and children, we must “Look one another eye to eye”, “Rub each other shoulder to shoulder” and “Speak to each other”.
I give my full support to Oyako Hi through the advancement of Oyako Gymnastics.

The relation between parents and children has been the source for everything dramatic since ancient times. We need to move this relation to an even richer place. For the future of all of us.

When I look at my son's bad habits, I see my own.
I'm sure it'll happen to my son, the same way, when he notices his own child's vices.
This tie between parent and child, for better or for worse, endures.

We had our picture done at the Mainichi Newspaper “Oyako interview session”. When I saw the photogrpah, I was reminded that however much we get wound up in our worries over parenting, we still can't ever get enough of our kids. So obvious, I suppose, but it took that picture to remind me.
Photographs open the heart on a page and then stay with us repeating the message. We go on living through one thing or another but the picture is there to call us home.
I hope the bonds between parents and children will grow forever deeper and that everybody will celebrate Oyako Day.

Friends, acquaintances, neighbors, bosses & underlings. There are a lot of different relations between people, but being parent and child is the most intimate and natural one. It's a strange relation fraught with overboard spoiling and clumsy communications that bathes in deep trust.
When I saw the picture Bruce Osborn did for us, I was taken aback. I discovered things that made me reconsider what parents and children are all about. It was a wonderful thing to bring home. I think putting aside a special day, like Mother's Day and Father's Day, to rethink and restart our parent-child relation is a wonderful idea. I support Oyako Day.

Bruce Osborn's Oyako photographs are about what ties people together. His present to us are the wonderful smiles that fill that world. When I look through his pictures, I feel I'm in the Utopia of photography.
I hope Bruce will go on for years with Oyako Day which gives all of us a fresh opportunity to come closer to each other.

What I learned from my father and mother,

I pass on to my two children.

There's a set of habits and some ways of thinking,

but what the family really passes on is love.

Nothing would bring me greater happiness than to see that

later, when my two children have become parents themselves,

they've fully understood this.

It's an important message, which is why I support Oyako Day.