Publisher/実業之日本社

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"Opening the Country March," a collaborative work by Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and nonfiction writer Seiji Fujii, is a unique reportage combining photographs and text, set against the backdrop of Japanese society in the early 2000s, a time of increasing globalization. Araki captures on camera the presence and gaze of people from diverse backgrounds—a woman from the Philippines, a Russian beauty, a student from Laos, and a Chinese woman—in urban spaces such as Roppongi in Tokyo and Yokohama Chinatown, capturing their demeanor and gaze in those moments. Fujii, with his socially conscious writing style, weaves together their daily lives, worries, and dreams into words, revealing the subtle nuances of their lives and hearts that cannot be fully captured by photographs alone. The title "Opening the Country" evokes post-war international relations, while simultaneously reflecting the reality of people living their daily lives in a changing society, quietly presenting a question about true "opening of the heart." The book is missing its dust jacket.