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TOKYO PHOTOGRAPHIC ART MUSEUM

Crown Prince Akishino and his family visit a photo exhibition on the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in the capital's Meguro Ward on Friday.
JAPAN
Jul 11, 2025
Â鶹´«Ã½ crown prince and his family visit Hiroshima atomic bombing exhibition
Two videos and about 160 pictures on display show the devastation from the nuclear attack, which took place on Aug. 6, 1945, in the closing days of World War II.
The museum's curators selected a wide array of works from the archives for the milestone exhibitions. Among other photos, Nobuyoshi Araki's work from the series "Winter Journey" (1990) was included in the "Continuity and Change" exhibition that concluded in June.
CULTURE / Art
Jul 11, 2025
Rare vintage shots and first-time shows at TOP¡¯s 30th anniversary
The 2025 schedule includes two exhibitions showcasing the museum¡¯s permanent collection and three solo shows that focus on the work of Takano Ryudai, Luigi Ghirri and Pedro Costa.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 20, 2022
Memento mori: Photography in the face of the inevitable
The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum examines how we face our own mortality in the new exhibition ¡°TOP Collection: The Illumination of Life by Death.¡±
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 10, 2020
Captured history: A collection of milestones in early images of Japan
An exhibition of rare photographs gets a second chance to present the evolution of photography in Japan at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 24, 2018
Masatoshi Naito: ¡®The other face¡¯ of Japan
When Masatoshi Naito first began researching Tohoku folklore, he expected to find places ¡®haunted with a macabre atmosphere.¡¯ Instead, he stumbled into a vivacious traditional society ¡®filled with elderly women who throw boisterous bashes all night long.¡¯
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 13, 2016
Tokyo: photogenic to its very core
Care to take a guess what the new exhibition ¡°Tokyo, Tokyo and Tokyo¡± at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum is about? In fact there are two exhibitions with the same name running concurrently, so it¡¯s ¡°Tokyo, Tokyo and Tokyo¡± and ¡°Tokyo, Tokyo and Tokyo.¡±
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 29, 2016
20 Year Anniversary: TOP Collection ¡ª Tokyo Tokyo and Tokyo
Until Jan. 29
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 6, 2016
Â鶹´«Ã½ TOP museum sees the big picture
After being closed for two years for major renovations, Tokyo¡¯s best-known photography museum in Tokyo¡¯s fashionable Ebisu neighborhood reopened on Sept. 3, just in time to celebrate its 20-year anniversary. The venerable facility now boasts a new look, improved exhibition spaces and a new name in English:...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 6, 2016
It¡¯s the end of the world as we know it, and we still feel fine
Hiroshi Sugimoto¡¯s ¡°Lost Human Genetic Archive,¡± the inaugural exhibition for the reopening of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (now the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum), is an erudite and elaborate exercise in gallows humor. The theme is the end of civilization and human life, but possibly...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 30, 2016
¡®Hiroshi Sugimoto: Lost Human Genetic Archive¡¯
Sept. 3-Nov. 13
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Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Authorities urge continued caution after heavy rain in Chiba leaves eight dead
A local resident walks past a 7-Eleven convenience store in a flooded area after heavy rain in the city of Oamishirasato, Chiba Prefecture, on Friday.
Takaichi drops ¡®remorse¡¯ in her first war memorial address
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks onstage during a memorial service ceremony marking the 81st anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, at Budokan Hall in Tokyo on Saturday.
U.S. to tell partners they must pick sides in AI race with China?
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Chieko Sugai at her home in Murakami, Niigata Prefecture
How U.S. bombing survey in Japan shed light on civilian sentiments of WWII
Residents are seen walking beside rubble in the city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, in this undated photo taken soon after the end of World War II.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Takaichi needs Aso on her side to solidify position in LDP
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a Liberal Democratic Party meeting alongside LDP Secretary-General Shunichi Suzuki (left) and LDP Vice President Taro Aso in Tokyo earlier this month
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.

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