Hirosaki, Aomori Pref. - Sachiko Kazama wants to tell you a dark fairy tale about Japan’s relentless modernization. This story has knights, robots, nuclear warships and flourishes of opera and classical literature.

And it doesn’t end well.An unflinching satirist, Kazama has made a name for herself delivering sharp political messages through her art. In 2018, for instance, amid excitement for the 2020 Tokyo Games, she made a dystopian woodcut print about the Olympics with fascist iconography and images of state violence, including uniformed soldiers marching and people being bulldozed off a highway — a reference to the run-up to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics that saw homeless people relocated and working-class neighborhoods eradicated.That gigantic masterpiece, titled “Dyslympics 2680,” is among more than 60 works including new and site-specific pieces currently on display at the Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art in Aomori Prefecture, part of “Kazama Sachiko: Clairvoyance in a 9 m² room,” a retrospective surveying her nearly four-decade career.

The exhibition runs until Nov. 15.