In 1989, the world was at a turning point.
The Cold War ended, the Gulf War broke out, the Tiananmen Square Massacre
occurred, and in Japan, the era of the Emperor Showa came to an end. It was a year
during which the demise of the post-war world order became obvious.
Then, in 1991, the “bubble” of the Japanese economy burst. While standing right at that
pivotal point in history and witnessing all those things happening around me, I
launched two separate projects: “Industrial Archaeology”…
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