was a
Japanese
Japanese may refer to:
* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
photographer
A photographer (the Greek language, Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs.
Duties and types of photographe ...
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As an officer of the
Metropolitan Police Department, he was virtually the only person who pictured the immediate damages by the
bombings of Tokyo in World War II under a strict regulation that prohibited civilians from taking pictures of war damages.
Gallery
image:Tokyo Kushu 1945-1.jpg, Evacuees in the bombing
File:Photo-TokyoAirRaids-1945-1-27-Rescue.png, Rescue workers after the bombing
image:Tokyo kushu 1945-2.jpg, Victims of the bombing
File:TokyōAirRaids-Charred Civilians.png
File:Tokyo kushu 1945-3.jpg
image:Tokyo kushu 1945-6.jpg, City in ruins after the bombing
File:Tokyo kushu 1945-5.jpg
File:Photo-TokyoAirRaids-1945-3-10-Honjo Drowned Bodies.png, Bodies floating in the Sumida River
The is a river that flows through central Tokyo, Japan. It branches from the Arakawa River at Iwabuchi (in Kita-ku) and flows into Tokyo Bay. Its tributaries include the Kanda and Shakujii rivers.
It passes through the Kita, Adachi, Arakaw ...
File:Photo-TokyoAirRaids-1945-3-10-Honjo Salvage.png, Salvage operation in Honjo
File:Photo-TokyoAirRaids-1945-3-10-Victims-Asakusa.png, Street view of Asakusa
File:Photo-TokyoAirRaids-1945-3-10-Ueno Dead Bodies.png, Bodies in Ueno Park
File:Photo-TokyoAirRaids-1945-3-10-Remains Ueno Park.png
File:Waseda University after Tokyo bombings, March 1945 (1).jpg, Waseda University
, abbreviated as , is a private university, private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the ''Tōkyō Senmon Gakkō'' by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the school was formally renamed Waseda University in 1902.
The university has numerou ...
after the bombing
File:Waseda University after Tokyo bombings, March 1945 (2).jpg
File:Waseda University after Tokyo bombings, March 1945 (3).jpg
References
Japanese photographers
1904 births
1989 deaths
Artists from Fukui Prefecture
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