Sugoroku — 60 Years' History since the End of the Second World War 

This work presents the major events of the six decades after the end of World War II in Japan in the form of a board game. The start is the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, and the goal is the inauguration of the Koizumi administration in 2005, when the work was made. In between are a litany of dark political and social events that occurred alongside Japan’s brilliant post-war reconstruction. Kazama Sachiko’s black and white print captures both the light and dark with dashes of humor. Despite starting with the end of the war, the “board game” ironically ends with President Bush’s Iraq War and then-Prime Minister Koizumi offering him a message of “congratulations.” This kind of black humor-infused expression is one of the methods Kazama adopts in her social satire.
(MINAMISHIMA Ko)