probably look at the art produced right after the war, throughout 50s and 60s. People were reacting to the social changes taking place at that time, because that was a really important time for Japan following the loss of the Second World War. How to find themselves again from nothing. Artists including Taro Okamoto, or many artists from that period, were reflecting the loss of the war, to the industrialisation of the society. Also, some of the artists called their works “reportage painting”. They were also touching upon issues of American militarism, the bases that were being established in Tokyo or Okinawa after 1951 US-Japan Security Treaty. Those artists were very aware of and commented on the social changes taking place. Our generation was not really educated with a strong sense of history, particularly about modernization. After the war, I believe our parent’s generation wanted to just look to the future, and the government propagated, promoted and legislated in support of such a perspective, one focused on looking to the future, not looking back. Too forget about the loss of the war. After the war the teaching Shintoistic myths about the creation of the Japanese world was removed from schooling, whereas my parent’s generation all were schooled and knew of that previous approach to our understanding of Japan, it’s history and relationship to Asia and wider-world. So the post-war generation weren’t really taught such during our schooling, our concept or perception becoming totally Americanised. That influenced so much of my generations own consciousness. Now Japanese