Community Apr 22, 2021
Australian project striving to find subjects of lost Japanese photos
by Anna Watanabe
After finding a haul of photos at a flea market, one artist has spent her time in lockdown trying to reunite them with their owners.
World Mar 16, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned a former Navy sailor who served a year in prison for taking sensitive pictures of the reactor inside a nuclear submarine, according to White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Trump repeatedly invoked the sailor, Kristian Saucier, during his presidential ...
National May 2, 2016
Japanese activist's mealtime photos focus on telling stories of Syria's displaced
by Magdalena Osumi
Meals eaten in tents or during the arduous journey from Syria to Europe. The struggle for food amid an uncertain future. These are among the moments being captured in photographs by a Japanese activist and aid worker hoping to bring awareness to the plight ...
National Nov 30, 2015
Toyama tour agency offers off-the-beaten-bridal-path wedding shoots
Instead of posing at the altar, Kosuke Nakamikawa, a junior high school teacher in Nishitokyo, and his wife, Mai, opted to go on a wedding photo tour featuring a World Heritage site with traditional wooden houses with steep roofs in Nanto, Toyama Prefecture. "It is ...
Culture May 18, 2015
Cut-out enthusiast fills niche face first
by Masaaki Kameda
Are you the type to put your face in a goofy head-in-a-hole board for a photo at a tourist spot, or do you think such antics are child's play and give them a miss? Company employee Tomoyuki Shioya, 32, is obsessed to the point that ...
National Jan 20, 2015
Photographer documents Ainu life
by Eriko Aoyagi
Taka Maesawa, a photographer from Nakashibetsu, Hokkaido, has published a photo book documenting the Ainu ethnic minority for more than 30 years since 1983. "I want people to know about the beautiful Ainu culture and the history of ethnic Ainu who have been discriminated against," ...
National | CHUBU CONNECTION Oct 17, 2014
Documentary puts survivors' accounts of Isewan Typhoon on film
A Japanese documentary on the 1959 Typhoon Vera, titled "Sorezore no Isewan Taifu" ("Each Person's Isewan Typhoon"), will begin screening on Saturday in three prefectures in the Tokai region. The film features firsthand accounts from the typhoon's few remaining survivors and puts together a complete ...
National Jul 24, 2014
The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum is exhibiting 26 recently discovered photographs taken a year and four months after the bomb was dropped on Aug. 9, 1945. Nagasaki Municipal Government officials found the pictures, including one showing ground zero, at the U.S. National Archives. Notes written on ...