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Author:  Alice [ Thu Jan 27, 2011 1:49 pm ]
Post subject:  Koyo Ishikawa - Documentary Photographs of Prewar Japan

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Exhibition of photographs of everyday life in pre-war Tokyo:
"Koyo Ishikawa - Documentary Photographs of Showa by A Metropolitan Police Department Cameraman".
Until March 21, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., at the Tokyo Station Gallery, near Shiodome Station on the Toei Oedo line and JR Shinbashi Station.
Closed Mondays. Admission free. For more information, visit http://www.ejrcf.or.jp/gallery/

Review here: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/ar ... 003869.htm

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One is forced to wonder (well, I am anyway):
What if WWII had never happened?

Author:  kurumonz [ Thu Jan 27, 2011 7:42 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Koyo Ishikawa - Documentary Photographs of Prewar Japan

That's a good question. I'd say two scenarios.
1) Japan's growth wouldn't be so fast. It was because of the devastation that they had to re-built and that momentum carried them to where they are today.

2) Or she could look like Coruscant by now?
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