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"Postwar Youth Part I and II: Considering Japan's Postwar Period" is a photo collection by Kikujiro Fukushima, one of Japan's leading postwar photographers. While running a watch shop in his hometown of Yamaguchi Prefecture, he shot the documentary "Pikadon (1961)," which followed the atomic bomb survivors as an amateur photographer. He rose to prominence after turning 40, divorced, and moved to Tokyo with his three children. While pursuing issues such as intensifying protests across the country, he began to question state and government oppression, and since then has focused his life's work on social issues such as student activism, politics, military affairs, pollution, and welfare. His radical portrayals of "anti-establishment and anti-national" issues drew the attention of the public security police, who ambushed him, wiretapped him, and even burned his house down, yet he remained true to his style as a true photojournalist. These books are the first and second volumes of the "Postwar Youth" series, published by Sanichi Shobo in 1980 and 1981. Fukushima says he was greatly inspired by the energy of young people trying to build a new era with their own hands through the anti-security treaty protests and student movements of the 1960s and 1970s. This documentary depicts the passionate aspirations of young people and the many mistakes the nation has made through the "University of Tokyo Struggle" and "Sarizuka Struggle."