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Nakamura Hiroshi, The Base, 1957.

Yesterday’s art represented one aspect of Japan’s twentieth century — its inclusion in the American orbit after 1945 — so today we cover the art of resistance to that orientation, which gripped so many in Japan. The country has been home at some points to the largest non-governing Communist Party in the world, as well as…