Kenji Kawano is a Japanese photographer who spent 40 years living with and photographing the Navajo code talkers, a group of WWII veterans who served in Japan using the Navajo language to communicate military orders.
“My father said the war ended early so he could come home,” Mr. Kawano recalled. “That’s why I was born and I came to America, taking pictures of the former enemy. He came to see me back in the ’90s; he met Mr. Gorman, and I have a picture of the two of them. So life is very interesting.”