Photography is helping women in Japan rediscover themselves ... I now realise that taking nude portraits has some therapeutic effect for women." The independent photographer remembers vividly ...

“We’ll defeat the Japanese in the end,” said Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, “but we shouldn’t look at the war with them through rose-colored glasses.” Secretary Stimson has had a ...

According to the National Printing Bureau, the subjects should be well-known to the Japanese people and someone to take pride in. Their portraits need to be rendered as precisely as possible to ...

Compared to landscape or street photography, taking studio-based portraits can seem a big challenge – but as Japanese-antiques expert David Thatcher reveals, with the right teachers and attitude ...

Yasumasa Morimura is a contemporary Japanese appropriation artist whose work consists of inserting his face and body into portraits of artists and celebrities from history. Similar to American ...

Royal B.C. Museum exhibit offers a glimpse of life in the Japanese community on Vancouver Island a century ago.

The portrait apparently was executed by Hokusai in his early 40s, based on kanji characters that state it was done in 1803 in the Japanese imperial ... after viewing a photo of the image.