Made for the exhibition held at the Ginza gallery in 2024, and shortlisted for the 2025 Arles book awards. The dust jacket is double-sided and reversible, giving two cover versions.

“In 1989 the world was at a turning point. The Cold War ended, the Gulf War broke out, the Tiananmen Square massacre occurred, and in Japan the era of the Showa emperor came to an end. It was a year during which the demise of the post-war order became obvious; then, in 1991, the bubble of the Japanese economy burst. While standing right at that pivotal point in history and witnessing all those things happening around me, I launched two separate projects: Industrial Archaeology in 1991 and, in 1993, the Fake Scape series. The first focuses on production sites of key industries during the period of rapid economic growth, while the second is a portrait of stores with flashy, eccentric designs set up along national highways in the suburbs of major cities; I eventually continued until around 2005. In 2021 I was given the opportunity to present both projects juxtaposed in a combined space, thirty years after commencing work on them, and I felt that I was finally able to express thoughts that had been forming since the 1990s about the uncertain situation of the country at the turn of the century. Today the advance of digital infrastructure is accelerating, the cycle of production and consumption transforms in ways beyond intelligibility, and it seems as though it still drifts along. I believe it is a meaningful practice to examine the status quo by looking back on those days.” — from the afterword