The exhibition titled “Hanran,” Japanese for deluge or flood, presents photography that documents the 1930s to the 1990s, decades of complex and unrelenting change that include, of course, the nuclear devastation of 1945. On view for the first time outside Japan, this work, by 28 photographers, captures a social and political turmoil unlike that experienced by any other nation. —E.C.

Hanran: 20th-Century Japanese Photography
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National Gallery of Canada / Ottawa / Art
National Gallery of Canada / Ottawa / Art
Hayashi Tadahiko, “Female Air Defence Correspondents Standing in a Row.” Courtesy of the Yokohama Museum of Art.
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