Sasebo — a port town on the western edge of Japan, grown up as a base town where the U.S. Navy is stationed and a shipbuilding town driving Japan's postwar economic miracle.

The world beyond the chain-link fence, which the photographer has watched since childhood. At the foot of the towering cranes, this photobook captures the misshapen men who swarm over structures caked in rust and oil.

The third volume of the Sasebo Project, in which photographer Osamu Matsuo documents his hometown of Sasebo from a range of perspectives.