Little Traveler

A Short StoryIn 2018, Jimmy Randolph works for Bandai Namco and has a lifelong fascination with the company's earliest Japanese tin toys. When he uses the Kyoto Echo Chamber to visit Tokyo in 1951, he expects to witness the humble beginnings of a legendary toy company.Instead, he meets Sachiko Matsumoto.Their brief relationship becomes something neither of them can quite leave behind. But decades later, Jimmy has almost forgotten the young woman he knew in postwar Tokyo. Then, in 2025, an unexpected visitor arrives at his door carrying a secret that has survived for more than seventy years.And with it comes a little tin toy that Jimmy has spent his life searching for.