My Old 'New Town’-Recollections Vol.3

2016

This work features color photographs that I shot in her hometown, Senri New Town, located just north of Osaka City. The town was one of the “New Towns”—large-scale residential satellite towns designed by the government throughout Japan in the 1960s. With its posh single-family homes, neat apartment complexes, parks, schools, shopping centers, and tree-lined roads, the New Town attracted many young families with children from the start. Fifty years later, however, the town’s population now has a high proportion of senior citizens and very few children. Scores of houses stand vacant. I noticed this transformation and started to document the many faces of this aging “model city.”