Jap.mw.718.xsPeter Menzel has a meal with the Ukita children in their Kodaira City home during the week he spent with them to shoot the family for the Material World book. Japan. Material World Project. Food. Children, Child. {{The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City. Kazuo is a salary man who works in a book warehouse. His father is a doctor who helped them to buy their quiet suburban home. Sayo was a bookstore clerk before marriage and is now a homemaker. Family members are: Kazuo Ukita (45, father); Sayo Ukita (43, mother); Mio Ukita (9, daughter); Maya Ukita (6, daughter). (From Peter Menzel’s Material World: A Global Family Portrait Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions).}}