12-08-2023 11:00 via theguardian.com

‘This environment is normal in Tokyo’: Jeff Liang’s best phone picture

When the Taiwanese photographer lived in Japan, he found the working days were long and conforming was essentialReflecting on his three years in Japan, Taiwan-based photographer Jeff Liang says, “Someone said to me once that Japanese society is like nigiri rice – that’s a perfect ‘bowl’ of rice, formed with your hands: nothing can fall out, or stick out – every single grain of rice must stick together to make it work. In Japanese culture, conforming is deemed
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