In general, Japanese people like to keep their distance from one another. They are shy. I'm one of them so I know. I've always wondered how they would behave if I turned a camera on them without their permission but with them knowing what was going on. So I put the general workforce to the test, shooting with a flash on purpose so they'd know that I was shooting them. I was especially interested in how the blue-collar folk responded. Their working style is so serious and robotic, it seems they almost don't have any cardiac output. This is so Japanese. Anyway, let's see my photos…
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He is a policeman and very busy with his business so he couldn't pay any mind to my camera. "I'm a stone. Stone doesn't move. Weird man takes photographs of me but stone doesn't move… " "I don't want to pose straight on so I will nonchalantly turn my head skyward." This girl is a shop employee. She was surprised by my sudden shooting but I was customer for her so she wasn't sure what she was supposed to do--smile or tell me to get out. I felt sorry in this case. Sorry, girl…TOMOKAZU KOSUGA
