Japan’s first female photojournalist Tsuneko Sasamoto, who captured the lives of civilians under the country’s tumultuous Showa era, has died at the age of 107. Sasamoto passed away on August 15 in ...

Takeuchi’s meditation on dissident women is at the center of I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now, which references these three historical examples, though is ...

Jean-Vincent Simonet's frenetic photos of Japan aren't your average tourist shots. There are no flowering cherry trees, misty shrines, or snowy peaks—instead, an acid-washed whirl of neon lights, ...

For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968–1979 offers an ambitious social and art history of a decade ignited by protest, shaped by global power dynamics, and ...

A pair of Japanese schoolgirls primp their hair before a long mirror, preparing for the perfect shot. But they are not taking a smartphone selfie, they are using a "purikura" photo booth. Old-style ...

Edutainment games are a constant, and the good ones can really leave an impression on you. This is largely due to them being genuinely enjoyable in their own right, so you get an urge to play even if ...

NEW YORK — “The Incomplete Araki” is a knowingly redundant title for an exhibition of Japan’s most prolific, most controversial and most disobedient photographer. For more than 50 years, Nobuyoshi ...

Photography has evolved immeasurably since its inception in the 1800s. Images can now be snapped on smart phones and shared instantly on social media. This transition has undermined the existence of ...

“The Yamamoto family values were forged in small spaces,” the Japanese photographer Masaki Yamamoto told me recently. For eighteen years, his family of seven coexisted in a one-room apartment in Kobe.

Japan has produced world-renowned photographers such as Kuwabara Shisei, Ueda Shoji, and Araki Nobuyoshi. A Japanese name was ...