John BarrMay 7, 20193 minFrom Imperial Power to Consumer Power : Imperial Palace, Kyoto to Naka Incineration Plant, HiroshimaThe Naka Incineration Plant Hiroshima illustrates Japan's movement from a pre-modern, feudal, society to a post-modern, consumer society.
John BarrFeb 26, 201920 minTokyo Story : Looking Without Trying to Prove AnythingBetween 1932 and 1962 Yasujiro Ozu made a series of films that provide a slice of Tokyo life during the arrival of Modernism in Japan.
John BarrDec 12, 20189 minDo|Co|Mo|Mo|Japan|05 : Kagawa Prefectural Government Offices : Takamatsu : Kenzo TangeThe Kagawa Prefectural Government Offices (1958) offered a radical new vision of what Japanese public buildings might be.
John BarrNov 21, 20186 minDo|Co|Mo|Mo|Japan|04 : The Hiroshima Peace Centre : Kenzo TangeThe background to the Hiroshima Peace Centre hardly needs to be explained: the first use of the Atomic Bomb and the deaths of over 200,000.