Machida Shinobu

Popular culture researcher. Born in Tokyo in 1950. From an early interest in collecting product packaging, he began to study its history. He now broadly researches the history of popular culture from the Meiji period (1868–1912) to the postwar era. He began traveling to sentō around Japan from about 1980. Works include Shōwa retoro hakubutsukan (Shōwa Retro Museum) and Sentō no nazo (The Mysteries of Sentō).

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May 8, 2017