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  • From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Japan, 2001. The Ukita family, with whatever new possessions they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
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  • From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Japan, 2001. The Ukita family, with whatever new possessions they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
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  • Because Sayo Ukita buys her family's food from the nearby neighborhood markets situated around the train station (true for many residential areas in Tokyo) she usually shops daily; and by bicycle (the area is congested and there is little parking for cars). Rather than shop in one store for all items, she shops in a green market, a general merchandise store (pictured) and a fish market. Kodaira City, Tokyo, Japan. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Japan, 2001.
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  • Sayo Ukia (back to camera) shops for fruits and vegetables in the Kodaira City neighborhood, outside Tokyo, Japan, where she and her family live. Because Sayo Ukita buys her family's food from the nearby neighborhood markets situated around the train station (true for many residential areas in Tokyo) she usually shops daily; and by bicycle (the area is congested and there is little parking for cars). From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Japan, 2001.
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  • Subway trains cross an overpass over rush hour evening traffic in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Young Japanese regularly clog the streets of the trendy Harajuku area of Tokyo, near the train station. Tokyo, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The blessing of a new car at Yasaka-Jinja Shrine, Kyoto, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Artfully placed advertisement on a subway car in Osaka, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Commuter culture on the Osaka-Kobe subway route in Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A fashionably dressed young woman walks past the Angels heart dessert bar in Shibuya District, Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Teenage girls in school uniforms use a cell phone on a busy street characteristic of the fast paced life of Shibuya District, Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Teenage girls eat ice-cream from Baskin-Robbins on a sidewalk in the Shibuya District, Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Two girls walk past a Condomania condom shop and a McDonald's fast food outlet in Shibuya District, Tokyo, Japan.
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  • A busy street in Shibuya District, Tokyo, Japan. Shibuya district serves as the administrative and commercial center of Tokyo.
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  • A giant french fry sign at a  McDonald's restaurant in Shibuya District, Tokyo, Japan. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A patron finishes his meal at a Shibuya-area Wendy's fast-food restaurant in Tokyo, Japan. The Wendy's hamburger chain closed all of their 71 restaurants in Japan at the end of 2009. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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