A joint exhibition by Japanese designer Hiromi Inayoshi and artist Karipbek Kuyukov from Kazakhstan was held Nov. 19 at the Nippon Press Center Building in Tokyo.

Inayoshi has been involved in social activism since 1996, deploying global-scale art-aid projects for peace, including Picture Book Without Pictures, which aims to establish a nuclear-free world through art.

As the title suggests, each book has only the story on the left-hand pages and the right pages are blank, on which anyone can draw their pictures freely to complete their own book. Since its launch in 2009, the project has been adopted by many schools in Japan for peace education.