Tokyo, Japan – In this old photograph we see a scene from everyday life at the Salesian Vocational School in Tokyo, where a teacher follows the learning of a pupil sitting at the linotype, a machine for composing lines of text in lead for subsequent printing. In 1935, the first printing and sewing courses were also established at this technical school. The Salesians arrived in Japan in 1926, settling in the facilities left by the missionaries of the Paris Foreign Missions: Miyazaki, Oita and Nakatsu. They immediately began pastoral work and set up schools and vocational training centres.