Real Japanese Aesthetics (@nostalgiajaponica): "The Shinjuku Riot, Japan 1968 Murakami, Sakamoto, Kitano, and Tatsuro Yamashita were still young and unknown, moving through Tokyo in Japan’s own year of upheaval. All of them were college students or high schoolers, drifting near the edge of dropping out."

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The Shinjuku Riot, Japan 1968

Murakami, Sakamoto, Kitano, and Tatsuro Yamashita were still young and unknown, moving through Tokyo in Japan’s own year of upheaval. All of them were college students or high schoolers, drifting near the edge of dropping out.

Across East Asia, the late 1980s marked a period of intense social struggle. In Japan, the equivalent moment probably dates back to the student movements of the 1960s. At the time, Japan also had movements in sync with global upheavals.

Real Japanese Aesthetics

May 5

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