Wakabayashi Junko is the second piece in Ding-Yeh WANG’s Family History – Story Project, and it recounts the life of a Japanese girl born in Manchuria, who married a rich Chinese man in order to survive after Japan lost the war, and took on the name Yulin escaping to Taiwan, where she ends up spending the rest of her life. Yulin has lost contact with her Japanese family and has spent her entire life searching for the woman named, “Wakabayashi Junko”. Yulin’s granddaughter has recorded down her life in writing, and artist Ding-Yeh WANG has invited Yulin’s family members to collectively create the artwork based on the written record. Through the process of constructing the writing, this family restarts/re-composes a collective memory, with a new shared dialogue initiated. The family’s self-identity has also been brought together through the re- opening of the memory that has been concealed for so long. Wang has transformed the writing into a video piece and has presented it to the family as a gift, with this family’s story deeply imprinted in everyone’s memories.

《若林純子》是家庭史—故事計畫的第二部作品，闡述一位出生於滿洲國的日本女孩，在日本戰敗後，為存活 下來而嫁給中國富家子弟，以「王玲」這個名字逃至臺灣生活，與日本家人失去聯繫的她，終其一生都在找尋 一位名為「若林純子」的女子。王玲的一生被其孫女書寫成文本，藝術家王鼎曄邀請王玲的家族成員對此文本 共同進行創作。透過建構文本的過程，王玲家族重新開始/編織一個集體的記憶，展開一段新的共同對話，並 藉由重新開啓塵封已久的回憶，凝聚家族的自我認同。王鼎曄將此文本拍成一部錄像作品，回贈予此家族作為 禮物，並深刻烙印家族故事於記憶之中。