The exhilarating visual spectacle of 1970s Tokyo

Japan in the 1970s was heaven for a photographer. Far from the Western cliche about the Japanese being inscrutable, much of daily life could not have been more scrutable. Tokyo was, and to some extent still is, a visual feast of shop signs, billboards, TV images, movie posters, advertisements in print and neon light, shops, bars, restaurants and hotels disguised, like theatrical sets, in a pastiche of styles from all over the world.