Graham Cooper introduced his book to an audience at Daiwa House in London on 28 October 2010. He had been awarded a Japan Foundation Artist Fellowship in 1995 with a brief to study “Art in the context of Contemporary Architecture in Japan.” He explains in his “Author’s Statement” that this survey “is a record of personal assignments and captures the many sites” which he has visited. He “discovered a distinct lack of understanding and awareness in the wealth of creativity currently on display in Japan.”