In 1964, photographer Michael Rogier traveled to Tokyo to photograph Japanese teenagers. What came back was a moody and evocative document of jazz heads, pill-poppers, all-night benders, Tokyo Beatles, and a generation of young people pushing against Japan’s societal pressure to conform.
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