The Japanese Self Defense Force conducting an exercise for the Japanese public on a training field in Shizuoka with the U.S. military. Shizuoka, August 2015.

Massive protests in front of the National Diet Building, against the administration passing security legislation that will permit the Japanese Self Defense Force to fight with other countries’ armies. According to opinion polls, the majority of the public opposes the legislation and many think the government’s efforts to explain it fell short. Nagatacho, Tokyo, 2015.

A helmet such as those used by the Japanese Imperial Army in the 30s and 40s.

These photographs belong to Keiichi Kuwahara (87), a former Kamikaze pilot, who luckily survived because of engine trouble.

Mt.Fuji, the highest mountain in Japan. It is said that this area was one of the U.S. Army’s targets during World War 2. Shizuoka, June 2015.

Yukio Edano, the head of the new Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, addresses a crowd, who have gathered in front of Shinjuku station during the national election campaign week. Shinjuku, Tokyo, October 2017.

Part of an engine from the U.S. B-29 bomber *Filthy Fay II*, which crashed in Ome, Tokyo, on April 2, 1945. The engine was later recovered from the Tamagawa River and is now held by the Ome Municipal Museum.

Fusa Iwai, 85, trained at a military hospital after graduating from junior high school in 1943, caring for wounded soldiers and later civilians injured in U.S. air raids. “The only way to prevent war is through dialogue. We should have talked much more with those around us about what was happening to society.” Tokyo, May 2015.

A page of a magazine called “Weekly Photographs” published by the Japanese Imperial Government for the Japanese citizens during World War 2. The magazine aimed to increase one’s fighting spirit.

Massive protests in front of the National Diet Building, against the administration passing security legislation that will permit the Japanese Self Defense Force to fight with other countries’ armies. According to opinion polls, the majority of the public opposes the legislation and many think the government’s efforts to explain it fell short. Nagatacho, Tokyo, 2015.

Nagasaki Peace Park, August 2015.

Tadamasa Iwai, 95. During the Asia Pacific War, he underwent training for Kaiten (manned suicide torpedoes) and Fukuryu (underwater suicide divers equipped with explosive mines), two Japanese suicide weapons that were developed in the final stages of the war. Tokyo, May 2015.

A passerby carries a plastic model airplane kit of the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito, which was a British twin-engine shoulder-winged multi-role combat aircraft used in World War 2. Kudanshita, Tokyo, April 2016.

A Japanese Self Defense Force soldier walking around a field during drills. Gotemba, Shizuoka, August 2015.

At the drills of the Japanese Self Defense Force training ground. Gotemba, Shizuoka, August 2015.