{"id":75465,"date":"2025-12-02T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2025\/dec\/02\/fading-japan-showa-era-in-pictures"},"modified":"2025-12-02T16:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:00:18","slug":"the-fading-of-japans-showa-era-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75465","title":{"rendered":"The fading of Japan\u2019s Sh\u014dwa era \u2013 in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tokyotimes_lee\">Lee Chapman<\/a>\u2019s photographs document the scenes, signages and family businesses of the postwar Sh\u014dwa era Japan. They focus on a unique aspect of Japanese life, and one that in Tokyo in particular is rapidly disappearing: the buildings are long past their natural lifespans, and their occupants are reaching the end of theirs. With most of the country\u2019s new buildings resembling those seen in many other cities around the world, the Sh\u014dwa era is now being recognised as visually appealing as well as an important period<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2025\/dec\/02\/fading-japan-showa-era-in-pictures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Chapman\u2019s photographs document the scenes, signages and family businesses of the postwar Sh\u014dwa era Japan. They focus on a unique aspect of Japanese life, and one that in Tokyo in particular is rapidly disappearing: the buildings are long past their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88,92,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-photography","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75466,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75465\/revisions\/75466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}