When a blonde woman wearing with great nonchalance a marvelous 200-year-old necklace walks up my drive with a friend, I can hardly believe my eyes. I have heard of but not met Daphne Fukushima for 15 years. Now it turns out that she is renting a tiny house in Koshigoe, near Enoshima, and dividing her time between Japan and her native Sweden.
"I'm trying to establish a business here, selling period jewelry. Now that the children are grown, I'm free to try and make something of my Japanese connection."
Daphne was 16 when she saw the same pair of Beatles boots twice in one day. "The first time was in the bank. Then later, out dancing with a friend. My parents were in Finland; if I'd obeyed them -- stayed home -- I'd never have met Yoshio."