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What a picture from 1985 Akihabara says about 2023 Japan

I’m ostensibly on vacation this week, so I’ll keep this short, but I want to talk about this photo. It was taken by Neal Ulevich in 1985 for a book called A Day in the Life of Japan. The book was one of a popular series that sent armies of photographers to various countries, who would shoot over the course of a single day to capture the lives of people …