A "digital memoir legacy" of the universal bond between husband and wife Bento Box Lunches, Thank You from Wife to Husband, and Thoughts on 1,500 Meals over 11 Years

We are pleased to announce that Chizuko Seino's (Kashiwa City, Chiba Prefecture) "Obento, Thank You from Wife to Husband" has been recognized and published as a "Digital Memoir Heritage" by the Life DX Promotion Association (located in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Takayuki Sato; hereafter "the Association").

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Christmas Bento

Digital Memoir Heritage is one of the Life Digitization (Life DX) services provided by xLife, a cloud-based web service operated by the Association,

Everyone is a page in history, and your experiences, wisdom, and thoughts are connected to the future.

We started this service as a new culture that starts from 2025 and will continue for a thousand years into the future.

99% of us will never be found in history books, textbooks, or even Wikipedia, but we all have a unique living proof, "my story" that only we can know.

Our experiences and wisdom are our "living" legacy to be passed on to the next generation, our children and grandchildren. Currently, the digital memoir heritage includes some well-known people, but most of them are ordinary people who have recorded and published "my story" to be passed on to the future.

Chizuko Seino has kept a photographic record of all of the more than 1,500 bento lunches she has made almost every day for the past 11 years since her marriage, and she continues to do so. The bento boxes express the wife's concern, encouragement, and a little bit of meanness toward her husband, and have been featured on television as an important form of communication between husband and wife.

Chizuko Seino's "Bento, Thank you from wife to husband" was published in the genre of "Married Couple's Bond, Work Sharing" in the Digital Memoir Heritage section.

Here are some of them.

2013 Halloween Bento

2018 Retirement Bento

2018 Masked Bento

2023 Grievance Bento

Message from Chizuko Seino.

I have a motto: "No matter what happens, I will never skip my lunch box! was her motto.

I have continued to make 1,500 meals (as of October 2024).

Making character bento and fighting back with teasing bento

No matter what kind of bento I make, I always get a "Gochisososama" (thank you for the food) e-mail.

I have continued to make them for 11 years!

I hope you will enjoy looking at my bentos, even though they are not very attractive.

I hope you will enjoy reading this article.

Today, lunches have become more diverse, with convenience store bentos becoming more varied and tasty, restaurants offering more extensive lunch menus, and take-out and delivery services becoming more readily available, making it less and less common to bring a bento.

However, everyone has experienced the thrill of opening the lid of a bento box, the handmade feeling of a mother or wife, and above all, the spice of "love" poured into the entire bento box, which is a taste that cannot be replaced by anything else.

Episodes of Bento Talks by Seniors

Here are some stories about bento from our fellow seniors.

My mother's lunch box when I was in junior high school was mostly leftovers from last night, but there were always pickled plums made by my grandmother. When I think about it now, it was a balanced bento that maintained the balance between wife and mother-in-law.

"When I was in high school, I made my own lunch boxes because my mother was hospitalized. The first lunch box she made for me after she left the hospital consisted of a large bowl of rice and two canned kabayaki saury.

When I was in junior high school, my mother, who grew up as a young lady, couldn't make lunch boxes, so my father got up early every day to make them for me.

I was the youngest of six children. My brother's wife, who lived with us and was 15 years older than me, made lunch boxes for us every day. We were poor, so there were only a few items, but she put a lot of thought into it and it was a delicious lunch.

In those days when everyone was poor, there was a girl in my class who always had natto as a side dish for lunch, and everyone used to make fun of her. My mother heard about it and started putting natto in her own lunch box as well. I hid it with a newspaper and ate it, but after that I stopped teasing her.

The story of the bento tugged at the heartstrings of the seniors, and they were very excited. The episodes from their boyhood seemed to remain in their hearts as unforgettable memories.

Viewing Digital Memoirs Heritage

Digital memoirs such as Chizuko Seino's "Bento, Thank You from Wife to Husband" are open to the public and can be viewed freely.

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Many people have contributed to this digital memoir heritage in various genres.

In particular, the genre "Connecting the Great East Japan Earthquake" features contributions from mayors, town mayors, and others who fought on the front lines of government at the time of the disaster. In addition, we can also see a new picture of parents and children woven by the legacy of digital memoirs, such as a story of a battle at a TV station from the dawn of time, a story of a senior who ran a full marathon across 47 prefectures to achieve his dream, and a record of a father's life and war written by a child.

About xLife

xLife is an all-in-one life digitization cloud service that aims for "true recognition of the individual" in a society where individuals are becoming increasingly homogenized, transparent, uncertain, and predicted to become weaker.

xLife offers 36 services to digitize the life (lifetime) of people, pets, animals, and plants free of charge at our association.

xLife Human Membership Card

xLife MyCARD

xLife Pet Membership Card

xLife Pet Digital Grave Marker

(1) MyCARD, a smartphone business card used for a lifetime, to keep track of lifelong connections and current status of family, friends, etc.

(2)Action record of daily life with 130 life icons (with money and time management)

(3)Various life logs (personal history, theme pursuit, 100 dreams, memorial 100)

(4)Digital memoir legacy to connect my living proof to the future (general memoir, genre memoir)

(5)Last Message Reservations for your loved ones in case of unexpected deaths due to disasters, accidents, illness, etc.

(6)Erection of a digital grave marker containing the above connections, action records, and life logs upon passing away

(7)DX service for business members who support people and pets (municipalities, temples, zoos, trimmers, etc.)

(8) "Nanmu Card" to request Buddhist memorial services from temples, and health centralization and shared medical records for pets

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About Life DX Promotion Association

Life DX Promotion Association, established in February 2024, promotes social activities based on the operation of the digitalization platform "xLife" so that everyone can equally enjoy the benefits of digital technology through life-long digitalization (Life DX) for people, pets, animals, and plants.

Our activities are led by senior members in their 70s who have been engaged in IT business for nearly 50 years since the dawn of IT. Our main activities are as follows

Building a strong constitution against natural disasters such as the Nankai Trough, illness, and accidents (individuals and society)

■Promoting the activation of life DX in society (especially non-productive generations such as seniors, mothers and children, students, etc.)

Establish a culture of digital memoir heritage

■Promotion of a new mechanism, the "Nanmu Card," a digital Buddhist memorial service that asks the temple for help.

■Toward the realization of a new symbiotic society with animals and plants