Postcards, a souvenir option for visitors from Japan

A JAPANESE travel agent in Papua New Guinea is selling postcards at their office in Port Moresby.
The postcards are originally paper cut-out picture created by a Japanese artist, Satoshi Isono, who has been living in Papua New Guinea for five years.
He draws an original design on black paper, and cuts it with a needle-like knife. PNG Japan prints copies of them as post cards.
Isono said PNG Japan asked him to make postcards of his work in PNG.
“Part of the profit goes to charity to buy books for children,” he said.
Isono is an economic counsellor for the Embassy of Japan.
“Fascinated by plenty of motives in PNG, I started to make them. Yes, they are truly the PNG-Japan friendship art, which are based on inspirations by PNG, and created with traditional style of Japan.”
Managing director of PNG Japan Hideo Kamioka said visitors to PNG sometimes left without small and light handicrafts as souvenirs.
He said foreigners could not take back heavy wooden masks or curved plates back home.
“So, we came up to make new souvenirs,” he said.
“Last week, we had a business delegation from Japan.
“They came with big suitcases but their suitcases are full of documents and samples of business.
“They wished to buy small souvenirs. So postcards which represent PNG are one of the solutions,” he said.