National
NRA makes new reactor safety regimen official
The Nuclear Regulation Authority officially approves new safety requirements for reactors aimed at preventing disasters like the catastrophe at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
National May 10, 2013
Photographer retraces footsteps of grandfather, great-grandfather in U.S.
by Munehisa Tokunaga
Misaki Matsui shed a tear as she stood in a vineyard in Southern California, viewing the same scenery captured in one of her late grandfather’s photos. “I felt like I was able to unite with (her grandfather and great-grandfather), who were there about 100 ...
Our Lives | WHO'S WHO Feb 19, 2013
Journey to Kenya turns writer's life on its head, spurs Africa fascination
by Mami Maruko
It was a single visit to Kenya in 1972 that completely changed Michio Hiraiwa’s philosophy on life. He fell in love with the country, and visited there 150 times over the past 40 years. Once a workaholic, Hiraiwa says he now leads a stress-free ...
Profile Feb 15, 2013
British photographer documents lives outside the lines
by Kris Kosaka
Uchujin, aka Adrian Storey, a British photographer and filmmaker based in Tokyo, drolly explains his rather unusual business moniker: "I'd rather be an alien than an outsider."
Crime & Legal Feb 8, 2013
Tokyo-based Singapore photographer arrested for nude male photos freed
Prosecutors have released Singaporean photographer Leslie Kee, who was arrested Monday in Tokyo on suspicion of selling photo collections containing images of male genitalia, police sources said Thursday. The prosecutors also released two Japanese organizers of a photo exhibition who allegedly sold photo books ...
Crime & Legal Feb 6, 2013
Photog Leslie Kee nabbed for selling genitalia pics
Singaporean photographer Leslie Kee and two others have been arrested on suspicion of selling photo collections containing images of male genitalia in Tokyo, an act police say constitutes illegal distribution of obscene documents. Kee, 41, a Japan-based photographer known for his published works featuring ...
Art Dec 16, 2012
Pyongyang offers a rare 'real' photo opportunity
by Edan Corkill
Most images of North Korea appearing in the media express just a few aspects of that country — namely, repression, militarism, poverty, backwardness, gloom. Often, the form of photographs of that communist dictatorship conveys those ideas, too — whether by being blurry, taken from ...