“A few days ago in the evening I suddenly felt the urge to take a train to Yokosuka. It was already after eight when I arrived in the entertainment district behind the central station, but because of the pandemic the lights of the normally crowded shops were all switched off. The streets at night had turned into a bleak, dimly lit place, with the usual drunken crowd nowhere in sight.

I eventually held my camera into the darkness and made a dozen or so frames, walking quite naturally down the main street. However, most of the shops here were closed as well, and only a few people passed by. It was a truly sad and lonely sight. Little wonder, I muttered to myself, considering that more than half a century had passed since the time I wandered with the camera in my hand around that town.”