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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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," ...

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 ...

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 ...

LIFE.com unearths photos of pill-popping hipsters, doing the hippie hippie shake, back in the day.