When it comes to tackling the tensions in East Asia — the historical disputes, the territorial battles, the entrenched stereotypes — plastering people’s faces probably isn’t the first remedy that comes to mind.
A wall of completed masks made as part of the Peace Mask East Asia project, which stands out at a time when it is politically advantageous in the region to pick fights rather than try to resolve them. (Noriko Hayashi/for The Washington Post)
But in a part of the world where Japan’s wartime wrongs remain contentious 70 years on, and political leaders seem unable or unwilling to do much about it, a group of young people from across the region is giving art a chance.