Japanese journalist beaten by Rio police during demonstration over Pope visit
A Japanese national working as a photographer for the AFP news agency was dealt an injury to the head by riot police in Rio, Brazil on Monday evening during a large public demonstration that turned...
View ArticleTokyo ‘gigapixel’ panorama is world’s 2nd largest photograph
In September 2012, Jeffrey Martin – a photographer from London-based news organization The Guardian – shot over 10,000 pictures of Tokyo from the on top of the Tokyo Tower, and then stitched them...
View ArticleLA photographer captures theater monkeys in fascinating portraits
Sarumawashi has evolved from just making monkeys dance and perform acrobatics to becoming an actual art form and part of Japan’s culture for the past 1,000 years. Photographer Hiroshi Watanabe has now...
View ArticleJapan-developed app SlideStory wants to get people hooked on photo slideshows
With current smartphone and mobile technology making videos easier to upload, a lot of app developers are jumping on to the video bandwagon – the most prominent one being top photo app and social...
View ArticleConservation group says tourists getting too close to bears in Hokkaido
A wildlife conservation group has said that the tourists and photographers that visit the Shiretoko Peninsula of Hokkaido are getting too close to the brown bears. The area became a UNESCO Natural...
View ArticleNeurocam uses your brainwaves to take hands-free photos of things that...
It’s probably not at all wise to stick a device that deals in 4G/LTE wavelengths near you’re your head – and we’re sure the designers can come up with a better design when this goes retail (if ever) –...
View ArticleJapanese netizens react against Iwate Prefecture’s measures against illegal...
Japanese netizens have made their displeasure known over a recent law proposal in the northern prefecture of Iwate to criminalize just “pointing” a cell phone towards someone if suspected that the...
View ArticleNew smartphone app shows 1995 Kobe quake damage in augmented reality
The government of Nagata Ward in Kobe will never forget that fateful day of January 17, 1995 when the Great Hanshin Earthquake devastated the region. Now almost 19 years later, visitors to the city can...
View ArticleArtist tries to break Chinese and Japanese stereotypes through photos
Japanese artist Reiko Miyake has curated and published a collection of photos and statements portraying Chinese life in a website called “Billion Beats” (BB). The website is a collaboration of more...
View ArticleWorld War II photo negatives returned to Japan after 60 years
Negatives of photos taken by a U.S. amateur photographer during World War II have made their way back to Japan after 60 years. Around 340 negatives of photos capturing life among the Japanese during...
View ArticleHistoric Osaka POW photos point to better prisoner treatment in WWI
A number of historical photos displayed in Osaka’s Taisho Ward Office show that things were very different being under captivity in Japan in the First World War compared to the historically brutal...
View ArticleJapanese website designer takes stunning high altitude balloon photography
Keisuke Iwaya, a 27-year-old engineering graduate from Sapporo, has taken his fascination of outer space to a different level – a higher level – by doing photography way up in the stratosphere. Iwaya,...
View ArticleNew 3D imaging shows view of Nagasaki after WWII atomic bombing
A new 3-dimensional imaging display system developed by Takashi Fujiki, professor of technological education at Nagasaki University, allows viewers to see the stark devastation that was Nagasaki right...
View ArticleFukushima residents make photo collections to preserve memory of previous homes
The residents from Fukushima Prefecture, most of whom are still unable to go home due to radiation issues from the nearby crippled nuclear plant, are putting up a photo collection of their old homes to...
View ArticleJapanese photographer restores 750,000 pictures damaged in 2011 quake-tsunami...
Three years after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami devastated the Tohoku region, a freelance photographer has restored around 750,000 photographs and brought back happiness to people who...
View ArticleJapanese photojournalist releases book on her work highlighting human suffering
Known for her photos of socially marginalized people, upcoming photographer Noriko Hayashi has compiled some of her greatest photos into a new book. Titled Human Dignity, the book chronicles her work...
View ArticleLeica gives $12,000 camera to earthquake-tsunami survivor, gets mixed...
Three years after the Tohoku region in Japan was hit by a triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear reactor meltdown, many nations and companies continue to give help and support to the...
View ArticleJapanese photojournalist publishes book on testimonies of former ‘comfort women’
62-year-old Japanese photojournalist Takashi Ito is decidedly disturbed by efforts and movements in Japan to deny the plight of women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Army during...
View ArticleJapanese scientist develops technology to manipulate 3-D images
A Japanese scientist has recently developed technology – which includes a high-speed camera and special glasses – that will allow users to manipulate and work with computer-generated 3-D virtual...
View ArticlePhoto taken of imperial couple at train station & posted to Twitter, mixed...
Smartphone camera photos of Japan’s imperial couple – Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko – being posted on Twitter and going veritably viral shows the collision of Japan’s traditional culture with...
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