Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Closes Sept. 25.
Japan's war is forgotten, argues photographer Tsuneo Enari in his new retrospective "Japan and its Forgotten War: Showa" at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
The exhibition features five different series, all dealing with reminders of the Showa Era war. "The Children's Manchukuo," for one, is a black-and-white portrait series, created over decades, documenting Japanese orphans who were left behind in Manchuria after Japan's occupation. The work's titles carry short biographies of the subjects. One woman, Wang Yingjie, was left in the care of Chinese foster parents in 1945 when her mother and brother returned to Japan. These are touching portraits; most subjects, now in their autumnal years, still carry pain in their eyes.