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PHOTOGRAPHY

Japan Times
JAPAN
May 23, 2019
Newly released photos shed light on Emperor Naruhito's life in Britain
A set of photos has been uncovered offering a fresh look into the life of Emperor Naruhito during his time studying in Britain in the 1980s.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
May 11, 2019
'Trails': Blood spatters across an empty field of snow
After a decade of visits to annual deer culls in Hokkaido's Shiretoko National Park, photographer Takashi Homma has recently released a photo book, 'Trails,' about the project.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / TELLING LIVES
May 8, 2019
Photographing Tokyo's human side: Isaac Aquino finds an 'interloper' in us all
Isaac Aquino has just quit his job as a reporter, and he seems quite pleased with himself. The soft-spoken Filipino recently decided to go all in on Tokyo Interlopers, an Instagram account he launched three years ago, by focusing on a business MBA.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Apr 27, 2019
Tokyo babies smile for Solveig Boergen
'When a baby is born ... every moment is filled with so much joy and wonder and we often wish we could freeze time — newborn photography does just that.' Solveig Boergen
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Mar 23, 2019
Fumi Nagasaka: When Japan is neither in nor out of the picture
For Fumi Nagasaka, photography was born from making friends.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 26, 2019
Sony tries to reboot smartphone sales with movie-style screens for 4K filming and viewing
Sony Corp., having fallen way behind its South Korean and Chinese rivals in the smartphone sales race, aims to capitalize on its movie pedigree with new devices featuring 21:9 ratio screens, the dimensions used to film blockbusters.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 19, 2019
Toshiko Okanoue gives us pieces of her mind
Despite being unaware of the surrealists in Europe, Toshiko Okanoue created collages that were so unusual for the 1950s, they caught the attention of Shuzo Takiguchi, the leader of Japan's surrealism movement.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS ABOUT JAPAN
Jan 12, 2019
'Small Buildings of Kyoto': A spotlight on Kyoto's overlooked quotidian
When it comes to photography books about Kyoto, the genre is usually limited to three areas: geishas, gardens and temples — in the English language at least.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Jan 12, 2019
Aki Fujita Taguchi on life behind the camera
Rock photographer Aki Fujita Taguchi reveals how to snap the essence of a band in just three songs.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jan 5, 2019
'Oyako': Capturing the intimacy of parent-child bonds
Photographer Bruce Osborn brings together some of his most inspired portraits of parents with their children, all taken in his past four decades in Japan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 28, 2018
Shinzo Fukuhara: Shiseido's patron of beauty
As an artist, Shinzo Fukuhara may not be a household name, but his production of a photography magazine, founding of the Shiseido Gallery and writings on aesthetics were seminal to the development of art photography in Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 16, 2018
Diplomat spouse's top shot captures Japan in full bloom
An extreme close-up shot capturing a delicate sakura cherry blossom clothed in white floating on a tranquil surface of water won the Prince Takamado Memorial Prize in this year's version of the Japan Through Diplomats' Eyes annual photo competition.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Sep 15, 2018
'Yakuza Tattoo': Inside the secretive world of the yakuza's tattoos
Andreas Johansson spent almost three weeks immersed in the world of the yakuza, photographing and talking to around 30 gang members for his book, 'Yakuza Tattoo.'
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2018
How one Hokkaido town curbed population decline in graying Japan
In early August, as much of the country suffered through some of its hottest temperatures on record, a small town in Hokkaido welcomed visitors from around the world to an annual photography festival that celebrated the outdoors.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 14, 2018
Mami Kosemura says it with flowers
Where Flemish still-life painters combined fruit, vegetables and flowers that could not normally be picked in the same season, and portrayed them together in an imaginary, but highly realistic pictorial space, Kosemura uses contemporary tools to achieve the same with photographic detail.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jul 28, 2018
Old photos illuminate a Japan now 'lost'
In 'Lost Japan,' Rosella Menegazzo brings talented daguerreotype photographer Felice Beato and his previously overlooked photos of daily life in Meiji Era Japan into the foreground.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Jul 28, 2018
Photography: A journey of passion and joy
Name: Nico Perez
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 17, 2018
A photographer's return to Aomori
'I photograph landscape like it's skin' — artist Masako Kakizaki on her 'Aonoymous: Full Circle' project
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 5, 2018
Pure Land Buddhism and the art of photography
Follow the Sumida River southwest from Asakusa and you'll soon reach Kuramae, an old working-class neighborhood filled with small factories, wholesale shops and temples. The area is changing, though, with single origin coffee roasters and stores selling imported pottery sprouting up next to mom-and-pop...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 24, 2018
Masatoshi Naito: 'The other face' of Japan
When Masatoshi Naito first began researching Tohoku folklore, he expected to find places 'haunted with a macabre atmosphere.' Instead, he stumbled into a vivacious traditional society 'filled with elderly women who throw boisterous bashes all night long.'

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Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces