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 ...

. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. . Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. After three years of Army service he began his career as a photographer with the Japanese propaganda magazine ''FRONT'', in 1943. In September 1945 he was one of two photographers assigned by the ''Special Committee for the Investigation of A-bomb Damage'' to document the aftermath of the

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the onl ...

. In subsequent decades he worked as a commercial photographer. He died in 2002 at the age of 84.

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