September 22, 2020 – Autumn Equinox, Dusk In Chūō-ku, Nakayamate Street, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, a dimly lit basement-level snack bar occupies a modest 18-square-meter space inside a building with olive-green exterior walls. Its door hangs slightly ajar. It’s early evening, the hour of the rooster, but the bar is void of customers. It’s the last day of a rare four-day holiday. After months of isolation brought on by the pandemic, many people have given in to pent-up wanderlust, he...

September 22, 2020 – Autumn Equinox, Dusk In Chūō-ku, Nakayamate Street, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, a dimly lit basement-level snack bar occupies a modest 18-square-meter space inside a building with olive-green exterior walls. Its door hangs slightly ajar. It’s early evening, the hour of the rooster, but the bar is void of customers. It’s the last day of a rare four-day holiday. After months of isolation brought on by the pandemic, many people have given in to pent-up wanderlust, he...