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How ancient history and modern calamities have cultivated a national obsession with menacing creatures. By Aatish Taseer Photographs by Tess Ayano ON A BLUSTERY afternoon last November, I stood on the ...

The Japanese science fiction genre grew out of the ashes of the Second World War. Themes of peace, unity, cooperation and the existential threat of atomic weapons were common. Tokusatsu means ‘special ...