The Story of Harajuku Told by Photographer Mikio Kobayashi, the Driving Force Behind the Schoolgirl Boom. Memories of the Legendary Model Sayoko Yamaguchi in Harajuku, the City of Youth [My Omotesando and Harajuku] | Omotesando & Harajuku Media - OMOHARAR

Artist photo (top image): © Hideaki Mori Mikiyuki Kobayashi (Kobayashi Motoyuki) Born in 1963. Historical photographer, photographer, and film director. He is the leading figure in the Japanese model boom from the 1990s and the schoolgirl boom in 2000. His main works include "Tokyo Portfolio" (1995) and the photo book "TOKYO MODELS" (1996). His directorial work "Tokyo Shutter Girl" (2013) was screened at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and oth…