Another European photographer working in postwar Japan was the late Italian academic and alpinist Fosco Maraini. His book Meeting with Japan (1960) is one of th

Another European photographer working in postwar Japan was the late Italian academic and alpinist Fosco Maraini. His book Meeting with Japan (1960) is one of the greatest cultural analyses I've ever read. While his photos aren't as striking as TFA, the subjects and his writing capture the multiple transitions taking place in the country starting during the war (where he lived, including several years as a civilian POW) and during the 1950s. The English edition (translated from Italian) is out of print but worth purchasing if you can find a copy. Obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jun/15/guardianobituaries.obituaries https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jun/15/guardianobituar...