Joji Hashiguchi's "We Have No Place to Be" www.juxtapoz.com

In the early 1980s, Joji Hashiguchi began to document the plight of the young with his debut work, "Shisen."
In these five cities, Hashiguchi witnessed the complex cocktail of self-destructive discord lurking beneath the superficial excesses of city life.
Revealing the entrenched drug addiction, racism, anti-immigrant sentiment, unemployment, and poverty that pervaded urban centers then as now, Hashiguchi’s photos challenge the viewer to reexamine what we have both become and lost.
The complexities of youth have served as a captivating theme throughout the annals of photographic history.
Since its initial publication in 1982, We Have No Place to Be has influenced generations of artists and photographers in Japan.