Photography
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Wild swimming and TikTok dances: Hiroshima today – in pictures
Aya Fujioka set out to shake the weight of history from her home city and capture her own relationship with it…
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‘A form of meditation’: a photographic haiku to Japan – in pictures
A poetic new exhibition of dreamlike black and white images captures the country’s contemplative beauty, from …
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‘Monks, politicians, drag queens – all life is here’: a trip to Japan’s Kyotographie festival
The theme of this year’s celebrated photo bonanza is ‘humanity’ – and Kyoto is bursting with images – from fam…
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Bog standard? Tokyo’s spectacular public toilets – in pictures
Public toilets are rarely thought of fondly – that is unless you’re talking about those in Tokyo’s Shibuya dis…
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Monaka wears her cyclops mask to work: Niccolò Rastrelli’s best photograph
‘Japan is the mecca of cosplay. Monaka runs a cafe in Tokyo called Monster Party, where people go dressed as c…
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Let it glow: fireflies illuminating Japanese woodlands – in pictures
For 10 days in the summer, the forests of Japan’s Yamagata prefecture are lit up by himebotaru, a type of fire…
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Japan’s coming of age ceremony – in pictures
Coming of Age Day is celebrated in Japan every January, when those becoming adults dress in formal kimonos, pr…
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Unseen wonders: 70 years of Japanese female photographers – in pictures
Japanese photography has traditionally been dominated by men – but a new collection, I’m So Happy You Are Here…
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‘I make reality out of fantasy’: Hiroshi Sugimoto on fooling the world with his camera
As his survey opens in Sydney, the legendary photographer talks about using light and shadow to bring the dead…
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The origin of all things: Kyotographie 2024 – a photo essay
The 12th annual Kyotographie photography festival features 13 exhibitions staged in striking locations across …
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Cracking geysers: the world’s most thrilling hot springs – in pictures
They can be sacred, space-like, healing or heart-shaped – and anywhere on Earth. Even war can’t get between pe…
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Lovingly reconstructed miniatures of Tokyo houses – in pictures
The Swedish artist Christopher Robin Nordström had wanted to visit Tokyo since he was a child and, when he fin…
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Lovingly reconstructed miniatures of Tokyo houses – in pictures
The Swedish artist Christopher Robin Nordström had wanted to visit Tokyo since he was a child and, when he fin…
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Dekotora: the decorated trucks of Japan – a photo essay
Photographer Julie Glassberg has been documenting the misunderstood alternative culture based around brightly-…
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Japan’s floating world, Britain’s lakes of paint and California’s sculpted light – the week in art
Also, a newly restored first world war masterpiece and a 400-year-old portrait of one of the world’s first pro…
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Sizzling hunks, street smash-ups and kabuki rebels: the dazzling photography of Daidō Moriyama
The enigmatic Japanese photographer, who took some of the 20th century’s most compelling images, is finally ge…
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One kissa is all it takes: Tokyo’s finest jazz haunts – in pictures
Jazz kissa are niche Japanese cafes stacked with whisky, vinyl and high-end audio systems. Philip Arneill capt…
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‘I try to photograph the unseen’: Michael Kenna on 50 years of shooting breathtaking landscapes
A new book celebrates half a century of work by the landmark English photographer, who has captured everything…
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Tokyo’s coin-operated laundries – in pictures
There are an estimated 20,000 coin-operated laundries across Japan, a number that has doubled in the last two …
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‘This environment is normal in Tokyo’: Jeff Liang’s best phone picture
When the Taiwanese photographer lived in Japan, he found the working days were long and conforming was essenti…