A photo exhibition on postwar Japan is underway at the Tokyo International Forum chronicling memorable events from the end of World War II to the present day. The events include the late Emperor Hirohito's radio address informing the public of Japan's surrender in 1945 and ...
Photos taken the day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki were eventually thrown out by a Chicago museum because of water damage, it is revealed.
Fashionable Shibuya is a magnet for youths
Known as the town for young people, Tokyo's Shibuya district is the capital's center of youth fashion and culture. It also attracts crowds of tourists from home and abroad. Shibuya is best known for its "scramble crossing" near the north exit of JR Shibuya Station, ...
Images of 1896 Sanriku quake found
More than 10 glass-plate negatives of photos taken by an amateur photographer showing damage inflicted on a town in Iwate Prefecture by a devastating earthquake and tsunami 118 years ago were discovered recently, with experts describing them as important for both disaster studies and ...
Photographer captures daily life inside penal system
Photographer Hitomi Toyama has recently published a book of photos she has taken over the past two decades revealing different aspects of life inside prisons throughout Japan. The book, titled "Nippon no Keimusho 30" ("30 Japanese Prisons"), includes a picture of a prisoner holding a ...
Countering attacks on computer networks has become an important security issue for governments. On July 15, the U.S. Defense Department announced a strategy to harden American computer systems against cyberattacks. The Pentagon established U.S. Cyber Command in 2010 for daily operation and defense of its ...
The revelations of misdeeds committed by the British tabloid News of the World are horrific but should not be surprising. There have been suspicions about the paper's behavior for years but a perverse fascination with its reporting — like the inability to not watch ...
