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The Printed Record of Tokyo’s Vanished Underground
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Aperture
Cocurator Kei Osawa, a research fellow at the University Museum, University of Tokyo, drew the materials from his personal collection, amassed over some twenty years.
Installation view of Tokyo Underground 1960–1970s, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2025.
Japan’s largest university, Tokyo University, was often a veritable battlefield with students pitted against riot police.
Indeed, the physicality of the objects in Tokyo Underground reflected the politically charged atmosphere of these years and how those ideas were communicated.
Tokyo Underground 1960–1970s: A Turning Point in Postwar Japanese Culture was on view at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, from February 13 to June 8, 2025.
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