Japan's Drug Scourge - Kazuo Kenmochi
£300.00
KENMOCHI, Kazuo.
Japan's Drug Scourge.
First edition. 4to. Cloth boards in card slipcase. 532pp. Black & White plates throughout. Japanese text. Tokyo: Nisshin Sea, 1975.
An incredible work by Kenmochi documenting the drugs epidemic in Japan during the 1960s. Kenmochi's photographs highlight the cultural realities of post-war Japan where drugs introduced by American soldiers had led to a nationwide crisis. Kenmochi worked with the Japanese Ministry of Health using his photography to advocate for social change as well as highlighting human rights violations in drugs investigations.
