Tokyo In The 1970s, A Pre-Blade Runner City, Amazing Unseen Photos By Greg Girard • Discoverology

Tokyo In The 1970s, A Pre-Blade Runner City, Amazing Unseen Photos By Greg Girard

To mark the release of his latest book, ‘Tokyo-Yokosuka 1976-1983’, Greg Girard has shared a collection of largely unseen images offering a nostalgic glimpse of the Japanese capital before it exploded into the hyper-modern metropolis we know today.

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