A special exhibition at a gallery in a suburb outside of Tokyo is focusing on the suffering of people at the hands of man-made disasters.
Marking the third anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, the Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels is displaying some 30 paintings by Mitsuo Seino, who has been inspired by the tragedies in Minamata, Chernobyl and his homeland of Fukushima Prefecture.
The gallery in Higashimatsuyama, Saitama Prefecture, is named after Iri and Toshi Maruki, the husband-and-wife team known for their art depicting the horrors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.