Nobuo Okano, Book Repairman

This reminds me of a South African guy named Ford Hallem who is one of the only remaining masters of a Japanese metalwork technique. The attention to detail this guy has is incredible. The video's about 25 minutes and is enthralling for every single part of it. It starts getting Proper Crazy towards the end of part 1.

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGMj7o6AwnM Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM0VnL30rDc

While impressive in and by itself, I fail to see what use his daughter has for an old English Japanese dictionary. You can get better electronic ones for probably the same price as the repair alone.

Maybe the father has some sentimental value attached to the book, but then why remove all the things that makes it his? (like the highschool sweetheart initials)

Amazing video- must be seen to believe that he can rescue books in such distress.