Bushido - Our Father, Our Grandfather Eikoh Hosoe Hakushindo/2011/Japanese/380×27cm The long-awaited collection of photographs by Eikoh Hosoe, “Kibo: Our Fathers, Our Grandfathers,” is finally published. The world-renowned photographer, who was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit last year, includes portraits of 34 business leaders born in the Meiji era who are full of spirit. The book gives us a great power to overcome the unprecedented natural disaster of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the resulting damage to the nuclear power plant, and to use our creativity to help the recovery effort. Now is the time to remember and regain the spirit of self-reliance! The top economic leaders who led Japan's phenomenal postwar recovery and laid the foundation for today's Japanese economy. What do the faces and actions of these 34 people tell us? This is a collection of gems of photographs that capture the public and private lives of these men and women, and that we would like to bequeath to the future of Japan. Here are the original faces of these spirited Japanese!