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 bristling with giant cranes. Hemmed in by an isolated terrain with nowhere else to go, its nightlife has swelled and sprawled into strange shapes. The Japanese quarter and Sailor Town — the freedom-loving women who work these two districts, and the men who flock to them. A photobook capturing the unseen nights of Sasebo, an island stranded on land.
The second volume of the Sasebo Project, in which photographer Osamu Matsuo documents his hometown of Sasebo from a range of perspectives.