Starting when he was 26, Shingo Takazawa of Japan has made annual trips to the village of Point Hope in the Alaska Arctic, helping out during whaling season and developing lifelong friendships.
When Shingo Takazawa first came to Point Hope from Tokyo in the 1990s, he set up a tent on the beach. Since then, he’s been coming each year to visit and help during whaling season. Photographed on May 11, 2023.
Since he was young, Takazawa said, he has been drawn to books and TV shows about foreign cultures, always fascinated with stories from “a different world.” But the Arctic was calling him the most.in which explorer Naomi Uemura wrote about mushing dogs in Greenland. Then Takazawa read “Arctic Circle 12,000 km,” about Uemura’s 2-year mushing trip from Greenland to Kotzebue.Takazawa said. “I was thinking to visit Greenland someday but never got there because I found my place in Alaska.
The beach was right in front of the town, and everybody in the village could see the newcomer. In the evening, local children started coming by, curious about who he was. They asked Takazawa where he was from, what gear he had He asked at the store where to find a restaurant or a coffee shop in town, and he learned that there was none. A resident, Emily Lane, invited him over for lunch, and the next day took him to Cape Thompson on her ATV. During the trip, he was mesmerized by the view — and by Lane’s ability to tell time by the sun.
During his first seven years of trips, Takazawa would visit Point Hope for just three to four days each summer, riding ATVs with new friends and walking around the tundra. But in 2000, Popsy Kinneeveauk landed his first whale, and everything changed.By the time of Takazawa’s visit that year, the community was preparing for the whaling feast, making mikigaq, or fermented whale meat and blubber.
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