Publisher/横浜市

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"Document Japan: 35 Years of Turbulent Times" is a collection of works by Japanese photojournalist Takashi Hamaguchi (1931–2018). Born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Hamaguchi was based in postwar Yokohama and gained attention for his photographs of the 1959 Crown Prince wedding parade stone-throwing incident. In 1964, he received the Prime Minister's Award for his photojournalism of the Niigata earthquake. He published works such as "Record and Moment," "70 Years of University Struggle: Towards the Security Treaty," and "Documentary Perspective," continuously documenting the turbulent postwar Japan, including the Anpo protests, university unrest, the Narita Airport protests, and pollution problems. This book, published in 1987, is a record of the photographer's activities over 35 years. The name of Yokohama City and the Yokohama City Board of Education is inscribed on the cover, and it was produced in connection with a photo exhibition. It traces the transformation of postwar Japan from the perspective of a photojournalist, including the high economic growth and the social contradictions, political conflicts, and citizen movements that arose in its shadow. Hamaguchi's photographs, which not only capture the moments of historical events but also focus on documenting the lives of the people who lived at those scenes, also question the boundaries between journalism and expression. This is a valuable document that examines the social history of postwar Japan through photographs. Signed by the photographer .