He found 1,000 negatives for a series of black-and-white 1980s Tokyo streetscapes that were exhibited at a gallery at the time. "At first, I didn't remember taking those pictures," says the ...

Hokkaido is 831 kilometers (516 miles) north of Tokyo, so the journey is like popping out from Paris to Barcelona. The Nikkei share average started 1980 at 6,867 and ended the decade at 38,915.