1/17/2003--Tokyo, Japan Mitsura Inaba, Corporate Vice President of Sony's Creative Center, poses in the Sony headquaters museum which displays Sony products going back to 1945. All photographs ©2003 Stuart Isett All rights reserved This image may not be reproduced without expressed written permission from Stuart Isett.

4/4/2006--Paris, France Around 500,000 people demonstrated in Paris, as part of a nationwide day of strikes and protests to call for the withdrawal of the unpopular First Employment Contract (CPE). Here students stand on the Bastille monument in central Paris At the end of the protest, gangs of youths clashed with riot police in the Place de Italie who responded with tear gas as violence erupted in Paris and other French cities after more than a million people protested against an unpopular youth jobs plan. Photograph By Stuart Isett All photographs ©2006 Stuart Isett All rights reserved.

3/31/2006--Paris, France Riot police and demonstrators face off on the PLace de la Concorde following the national address by French President Jacques Chirac from the Elysee Palace in Paris March 31, 2006, to explain how he aims to end weeks of strikes and huge demonstrations against the CPE First Job Contract, which critics say undermines job security for young workers. Thousands of students took to the streets of Paris and marched all evening in protest. Photograph By Stuart Isett All photographs ©2006 Stuart Isett All rights reserved.

11/18/1999--Hiroshima, Japan A member of a 'bosozoku' biker gang clashes with riot police in Hiroshima. Such gangs have been common in Japan for many years and are considered stepping stones to join yakuza gangs and 'uyoku' or rightwing nationalist groups. All photographs ©2003 Stuart Isett All rights reserved This image may not be reproduced without expressed written permission from Stuart Isett.

8/15/03--Tokyo, Japan Young members of a Japanese yakuza gang gather on the streets in Tokyo's famous Kabukicho red light district. Photograph by Stuart Isett ©2004 Stuart Isett

4/13/2002--Rangoon, Burma Lay Phyu, one of Burma's leading rock stars, leans back and belts out a tune during an Iron Cross concert in Rangoon. The annual outdoor free concerts are held every April duirng Burma's traditional New Year celebrations. Normally gatherings of young men woiuld be broken up by Burma's ruling junta but the concerts are the one time of year such large gatherings are allowed. Local authorities are nervous that such concerts may turn political or violent and watch the shows carefull for signs of unrest. All photographs ©2003 Stuart Isett All rights reserved.

9/9/1996--Phnom Malai, Cambodia Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Sary gives a press conference while his Khmer Rouge body guard looks on. All photographs ©2003 Stuart Isett All rights reserved This image may not be reproduced without expressed written permission from Stuart Isett.

7/13/1995--RANGOON, BURMA Aung San Suu Kyi in the garden of her home after her release on July 11 from house arrest. All photographs ©2003 Stuart Isett All rights reserved This image may not be reproduced without expressed written permission from Stuart Isett.

January 27th, 1996--Battambang, Cambodia A government tank heads towards Kilo 38 to fight Khmer Rouge troops. All photographs ©2003 Stuart Isett All rights reserved This image may not be reproduced without expressed written permission from Stuart Isett.

11/3/1995--Chiang Mai,Thailand A young Burmese man works in a gay brothel in Northern Thailand. All photographs ©2003 Stuart Isett All rights reserved This image may not be reproduced without expressed written permission from Stuart Isett.

7/15/1997--Lopburi, Thailand. A patient in the main ward of Wat Prabat Nampoo, a Buddhist Temple that cares for HIV+ and AIDS patients, lies near death while the sun sets. All photographs ©2003 Stuart Isett All rights reserved.

3/5/2000-Tokyo, Japan Ami Yamazaki and Misa Horii (center, left and right) get ready for a night out in Shibuya dressed in the fashion of 'yamamba' or 'mountain witches'. All photographs ©2003 Stuart Isett All rights reserved This image may not be reproduced without expressed written permission from Stuart Isett.

6/5/2002--Kyoto, Japan To earn extra cash, two young geisha hand out free tissues at a Kyoto department store. With business slow at traditional tea houses, geisha have been forced to seek other ways of making a living. All photographs ©2003 Stuart Isett All rights reserved.

12/16/2004--Millau, France The new Millau Bridge is considered to be the world's tallest. One of the Millau bridge's pillars reaches more than eleven-hundred feet into the air, making it more than 50 feet taller than the Eiffel Tower. Designed by British architect, Norman Foster, the $523 million dollar bridge opens a new link between Paris and the Mediterranean. Photograph by Stuart Isett ©2004 Stuart Isett. All rights reserved

11/12/2005--Yunnan, China Sunset over the Chinese-Burmese border. Photograph by Stuart Isett ©2004 Stuart Isett. All rights reserved

Tong Tong, Sulu Sea, Philipines. The floating sea village of Tong Tong in the heart of the Sulu Sea. All photographs ©2003 Stuart Isett All rights reserved.

12/1/2004--Yunnan, China Young Buddhist monks in a temple in China's southern Yunnan provice. Photograph by Stuart Isett ©2004 Stuart Isett. All rights reserved

11/23/2004--Shanghai, China A group of elderly Chinese women enjoy dancing in Liujiazui Park in Shanghai's booming Pudong district. Photograph by Stuart Isett ©2004 Stuart Isett. All rights reserved

6/24/2005--Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China Workers take a break from shoveling coal at the Hohhot Power Plant. Built in the 1960s, the plant uses oal to provide power in the Northern Chinese province. Photograph By Stuart Isett All photographs ©2005 Stuart Isett All rights reserved.

10/13/2003--St. Nazaire, France An Airbus engineer (no name given) works inside the upper center fuselage on the first Airbus A380 jumbo jet. The 555 seat A380-800, with a non-stop range of 8,000 nautical miles, was launched in December 2000. The aircraft entered production in January 2002. Final assembly is to start in May 2004. First flight (with the Rolls-Royce engines) is scheduled for 2005 and entry into service for early 2006. A380 aircraft sections will be transported from sites in Broughton (UK), Hamburg (Germany), Puerto Real (Spain) and St Nazaire (France) to the final assembly line in Toulouse in a specially constructed huge roll-on/roll-off vessel, built by Jinling Shipyard in Nanjing, China. Formerly known as the A380, Airbus' double-decker passenger jet will be the largest airliner ever built. In a one-class configuration, the A380 could accommodate as many as 840 passengers. The more likely three-class configuration will still offer an unprecedented 555 passenger seats. The A380 would offer 30% - 50% more seating than its direct competition, the Boeing 747-400. All photographs ©2003 Stuart Isett All rights reserved This image may not be reproduced without expressed written permission from Stuart Isett.

8/5/02--Arakawaoki, Japan Employees at Canon's Ami Plant assemble color copy machines. All photographs ©2003 Stuart Isett All rights reserved This image may not be reproduced without expressed written permission from Stuart Isett.

3/15/2002--Tokyo, Japan Two Japanese high school girls using their mobile phones to send email. All photographs ©2003 Stuart Isett All rights reserved This image may not be reproduced without expressed written permission from Stuart Isett.

8/10/2001--Tokyo, Japan NTT DoCoMo CEO Dr. Keiji Tachikawa posing at DoCoMo's showroom in Tokyo. All photographs ©2003 Stuart Isett All rights reserved This image may not be reproduced without expressed written permission from Stuart Isett.

1/20/2003--Tokyo, Japan A Japanese executive unwinds in an out door hot spa at the Green Paza in Tokyo's central Kabukicho district. Called a 'rotenburo' in Japanese, the hot out door porls are mopre often found in rural and mountainous regions of Japan. All photographs ©2003 Stuart Isett All rights reserved This image may not be reproduced without expressed written permission from Stuart Isett.

5/10/2006--Siberia, Russia Gasprom workers drilling for gas above the Arctic Circle. Photograph By Stuart Isett All photographs ©2006 Stuart Isett All rights reserved.

Osaka, Japan Cheap sake, often sold by local yakuza gangsters, fules alcoholism among Japan's homelss in Osaka's Kamagaeski neighborhood, often called Japan's biggest slum. All photographs ©2003 Stuart Isett All rights reserved This image may not be reproduced without expressed written permission from Stuart Isett.

Towa, Japan Only 3 students attend Towa's middle school on the island of Suoh Oshima, Japan's oldest island. All photographs ©2003 Stuart Isett All rights reserved.

Tokyo, Japan Japanese rightwing extremists harass opponents on the streets of Tokyo in a sound truck. All photographs ©2003 Stuart Isett All rights reserved This image may not be reproduced without expressed written permission from Stuart Isett.

November, 1993--Bakersfield, California Gino, a Cambodian gang member, loads his 38 in the hills outside Bakersfield, California. All photographs ©2003 Stuart Isett All rights reserved This image may not be reproduced without expressed written permission from Stuart Isett.