Smartphones displacing point-and-shoot cameras from Japanese manufacturers
Point-and-shoot digital cameras, once the darlings of amateur photographers, are slowly being pushed out of the market thanks to the growing popularity and sophistication of smartphones. This has put...
View ArticleHistoric photos discovered of Russian POWs taken by Japan in early 20th...
A special photo collection has just been published in Moscow that features hundreds of pictures of Russian soldiers taken prisoner during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-1905. The book aims to provide a...
View ArticleUFO crash sighted near Okinawa coast, or so media says
UFO sightings, both of the flying kind and the crashing kind, have always been filled with cases of wild goose chases, dubious evidence, and hoaxes. This latest one, which supposedly happened on...
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Japanese photographer Ari Hatsuzawa shows ‘real’ North Korea
Tokyo-based photographer Ari Hatsuzawa gives the world a glimpse inside North Korea in a photo book collection, set to hit the stores on December 21st. Unlike the usual mundane and stolen images most...
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Japanese trucker fights boredom by going to war-torn Syria
When bored, some people resort to playing games or sports, or at most, doing some rather risky activities like skydiving or bungee jumping. But even those aren’t enough for a Japanese truck driver who...
View ArticlePhoto retoucher attempts to restore tsunami disaster victims’ damaged memories
Sometimes, the only tangible things left for disaster survivors are damaged photographs that they managed to salvage from their homes. New York-based photo retoucher Becci Manson has initiated a...
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Shomei Tomatsu, renown photographer of A-bomb survivors, dies at 82
82 year old Shomei Tomatsu, an internationally recognized Japanese photographer, passed away due to pneumonia in an Okinawa hospital on December 14th. He was most known for his post-WWII works,...
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Rare WWII photo found showing split cloud after Hiroshima atomic bomb
A rare, one-of-a-kind photograph has been discovered in the Japanese city of Hiroshima that reveals the mushroom cloud from the World War II atomic bomb in two parts. The black and white picture...
View ArticleJapanese photographer gives unprecedented look at two decades in Burma
Yuzo Oda was just 29 when he first went to Burma in 1993. Little did he know that he was to become the first foreign photojournalist to visit every region of a country to document the lives of ordinary...
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First 3 photos taken in secret during Algerian hostage crisis released
Three photos taken during last week’s Algerian hostage crisis have been released by Japan’s Kyodo news agency. Captured in secret with a cellphone on January 16th by an Algerian national, the images...
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Photographic plates found in Osaka showing historic imperial army coup from 1936
73-year old restaurant owner Yoshihiro Yaida is in possession of 31 photographic dry plates with scenes of the so-called “2-26 Incident,” an attempted bloody coup d’etat by Imperial Japanese Army...
View ArticleSingaporean photographer Leslie Kee arrested for selling art book containing...
Leslie Kee, a well-known Singaporean photographer who resides in Tokyo, was arrested on Monday for selling several copies of a book that included uncensored pictures of male genitalia. The 41 year old,...
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Japan’s fashion industry protests arrest of photographer Leslie Kee over...
Following the news about the arrest of Singaporean photographer Leslie Kee on Monday, the fashionistas of Japan have begun to speak out against the charges of selling a book that contained obscene...
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TEPCO releases 2,145 new photos of Fukushima taken immediately after meltdown
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), owner and operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, released 2,145 photos taken from March 15 to April 11, 2011 by different photographers, including its...
View ArticlePhotographer Leslie Kee freed after arrest for nude male photo book
Police sources have revealed that Leslie Kee, the Singaporean photographer, was released by Tokyo prosecutors on Thursday following his arrest for selling several photo books that contained uncensored...
View Article‘Japan Lies’ documentary about photojournalist Kikujiro Fukushima reaps awards
“Japan Lies: The Photojournalism of Kikujiro Fukushima, Age 90″ is a documentary about a Japanese photojournalist who showed his country and the rest of the world the plight of the atomic bomb victims...
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Tokyo printing company president arrested after producing Leslie Kee’s...
The ongoing investigation/crackdown on photographer Leslie Kee and his art book that contained uncensored images of male nudity has led to two arrests at the Tokyo printing company that produced the...
View Article‘Photohoku’ project finds ways to help disaster victims with new family pictures
“‘Photohoku’ is a project to rebuild and restart family photo albums of those affected by the Tohoku Tsunami disaster,” it says on its website. The project brings together a number of professional...
View ArticleJapanese photographer captures sea regeneration after tsunami
One cannot imagine the sadness of seeing the broken homes and all things that used to be on land now rotting away at the bottom of the sea after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. And this is...
View ArticlePhotographer exhibits pictures of desolation from abandoned Fukushima hometown
70 year old photographer Shigeyuki Takagi, who lived in Namie until he was 18, has gone back again and again to the now abandoned and desolate town. It is but a shadow of its former self, before the...
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