In 2018, Japan's passport is one of the strongest in the world.
A friend of my generation and I talked about the background of the times we grew up.
This work "untitled" was created based on that conversation and photographs of trips in that year.
I was born in Japan, 1968.
I am one of many in the baby boom era.
When I was a child, the influence of war was still strong.
It was usual for people wearing military uniforms to beg for begging on the street.
We hoped for thinking that we are middle class - "all-Japanese-are-middle-class mentality".
That education was forced to be the same as everyone.
* The thinking different from everyone is bad
* To make the same behavior
* Nondescript, to be no individuality
Of course, the argument is bad - we never fight
Never say truth things directly, Never tell clearly - no battle seed
Thinking the same things, Doing the same things, Wearing the same clothes.
When we grew up, Outside of Japan were told that "they could not say their own opinions."
And quiet and polite
We don't talk clearly