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A photo collection by Japanese photographer Katsuo Kenmochi, "Flashback Photo Reportage: Japan's Drug Disaster (With OBI)". Since 1960, Katsuo Kenmochi is a famous journalist who has pursued drugs for over 40 years in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, under the name of the "Drug Ban Campaign". In order to avoid confidential matters and human rights violations in investigations, he has made extensive use of his shooting methods and technical ingenuity, and has developed abstract photographic expressions into artistic expressions, fully demonstrating his originality not only in the drug problem but also in "sexual liberation" and "eroticism". Kenmochi has continued to produce unparalleled works in both the "recording" and "creation" of photographs, and this book is a compact collection of works that can be considered a digest version of his many years of drug reporting. Drugs were brought to Japan by American soldiers after the war and caused a nationwide flood. In the 1960s, Japan was mocked as a "drug powerhouse" because the penalties for smugglers and smugglers were light and even if they were arrested, it was only a minor crime. This reportage by Kenmochi Katsuo was initiated with the desire to photograph this reality and bring it to the attention of society.