Photography
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Tokyo review – lust and loneliness in Japan’s pleasure quarters
Ashmolean Museum, OxfordA seductive encounter with past and present at the Olympic city shows that Tokyo pract…
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Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony – in pictures
With a blaze of indigo and white fireworks lighting the night sky, the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony has sta…
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Tokyo’s 10-year-old sumo champion in training – in pictures
Kyuta Kumagai, crowned last year as the under-10 sumo world champion, is twice the size of other children his …
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Coming of Age day in Japan under Covid – in pictures
Young adults gathered in Japan to celebrate reaching 20, the age at which they can drink alcohol, smoke and ge…
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Enter the void: photographs that find beauty in emptiness – in pictures
Paul Cupido’s Japan series is inspired by a saying of the Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi: ‘An empty room will be…
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Neon nights: the living art of fireflies – in pictures
Photographer Kei Nomiyama captured dreamy, long-exposure images of fireflies in the mountains of Shikoku Islan…
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Japan’s taboo-breaking tattoo fans – in pictures
A growing tribe in Japan are defying deeply held prejudices linking tattoos with crime, turning their bodies i…
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Damon Albarn in a facemask: Kevin Cummins’ best photograph
‘He wanted to get on a train in Tokyo to see what they were like. He put on a facemask and did a shiver as a j…
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Fashion designer Kenzo Takada’s catwalk – in pictures
The late fashion designer was the first from Japan to break into Paris’s exclusive fashion milieu in the 1970s…
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Kyotographie 2020: Vision
The Kyoto international photography festival’s theme this year is Vision, asking, in these unprecedented times…
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The big picture: a giraffe in Tokyo
This arresting image reflects Japanese street photographer Shin Noguchi’s impulse to capture cultures thrown t…
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Rising sons: the radical photography of postwar Japan – in pictures
Between 1957 and 1972, Japanese photography was revolutionised ... twice! These images spotlight the Vivo arti…
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Zaido: the ancient Japanese ritual to bring good luck – in pictures
After the death of her father and the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Yukari Chikura found solace by trave…
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Surfers’ paradise and a space selfie: Monday’s best photos
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A 3D map of the universe and socially distant cinema: Monday’s best photos
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Inflatable pizzas and a drive-in circus: the weekend’s best photos
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Geishas, Capt Tom Moore and Johnny Depp: Thursday’s best photos
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The soul of Tokyo: unseen shots from a Japanese master – in pictures
Issei Suda is regarded as one of the most important names in Japanese photography. The striking world he captu…
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Keeping the fire going: a visual response to coronavirus
In part three of our series commissioned in conjunction with the Prix Pictet, we present the work of photograp…
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Awakening a sense of wonder in ordinary life – in pictures
Super Ordinary Life challenges us to notice more. Yasumi Toyoda began the blog and instagram account in London…