ONGOING SERIES @ ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL - JAPAN FOCUS Japan-Adjacent: In Praise of Creative Expression within Japan’s Shadow

Japan-Adjacent: In Praise of Creative Expression within Japan’s Shadow

LAURA HEIN, Series Guest Editor

One of the pleasures of Japan is the high quality of visual art and design there, even in something as mundane as food wrappers. It is hard to ignore. Indeed, many Japan Studies professionals — local and foreign — who spend their work lives explaining Japan to the English-speaking world also have a deep interest in some aspect of Japanese visual culture. Many of us get considerable enjoyment from it. Yet far fewer of us are entirely comfortable with the idea of a unified single Japanese Aesthetic Tradition, even when the case for one is made as elegantly as it was by novelist Tanizaki Jun’ichirō in In Praise of Shadows.1 In that famous essay, Tanizaki not only mourned the retreat of shadows, allusion, and subtlety from the harsh glare of electric-light illumination, he also claimed the former as quintessentially Japanese qualities. Nearly a century later, we are still uneasy about the ways that aesthetic sensibility powered the intense spiritual mobilization that made possible an extraordinarily disastrous war. Or how much the ideology of One Japanese Aesthetic Tradition shapes cultural expression even today. I wondered how my colleagues thought about this issue, particularly when pursuing side projects, chosen for their own enjoyment. This curiosity has turned into an ongoing series: Japan-Adjacent. As it turned out, every person I asked had an entirely different set of concerns, all Japan-adjacent, but so far none fulfilling my expectation that they would speak directly to my original question. But they do cast relevant shadows…

URL: https://apjjf.org/japan-adjacent

Photography in Research and Teaching: One Thing Leading to Another
By: Timothy S. George
September 2, 2025
URL: https://apjjf.org/2025/9/george

Photographing Japan: The View from Machida
By: Bruce L. Batten
September 1, 2025
URL: https://apjjf.org/2025/9/batten

URL for Asia-Pacific Journal - Japan Focus: https://apjjf.org/

Resource: The Earthquake Children Image Archive

Description (from the web site): Welcome to the Earthquake Children Image Archive. This website, containing over 500 images, serves as a companion to my book Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo (Harvard University Asia Center, 2020).

The images collated in this website visually document children’s experiences of the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake and daily life in 1920s Tokyo. Sources range from postcards, children’s drawings and photographs, to maps, architectural drawings and memorabilia. In addition to images of and by children, the collection depicts teachers, imperial family members, government officials, policemen, doctors, nurses, foreign tourists, and other adults involved in providing relief, education and care of children in the aftermath of the Great Kantō Earthquake. Beginning from the eve of the earthquake, the images are organized into the following eight categories: Epicenter of Vulnerability; Earthquake & Fires; Objects of Concern; Agents of Recovery; Back to School; Earthquake Lessons; New Schools & Parks; and, Remembrance & Commemoration.

I have designed the archive primarily as a teaching and learning tool for undergraduate courses I teach at International Christian University in Tokyo. Each section includes questions intended for further discussion alongside the corresponding chapters in my book Earthquake Children. Today, as Japan marks the 100th anniversary of the Great Kantō Earthquake in September 2023, I hope your visit to this website also encourages you to review your own knowledge of what to do in the event of a future earthquake, wherever you are in the world.

URL: http://www.earthquakechildren.com/

New publication from the United Nations Economic and Social Commission For Asia and the Pacific: 「Sign language, what is it? An ESCAP guide towards legal recognition of sign languages in Asia and the Pacific」

Abstract:

Sign language is a distinct language. This recognition is enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. There are over 200 sign languages spoken around the world by 70 million Deaf persons. Yet, most hearing people have not been exposed to sign languages and either misunderstand or have limited knowledge about Deaf persons and sign languages. Deaf persons remain largely unheard and unseen in Asian and Pacific societies. The Asia-Pacific region is rich with social, cultural and linguistic diversity. Sign language and Deaf culture are important elements of this rich tapestry.

Sign Language, What is It? An ESCAP Guide towards Legal Recognition of Sign Languages in Asia and the Pacific seeks to refute myths about sign language. It explains the history, distinct elements, and culture of sign language and Deaf persons. It clarifies the importance of early Deaf childhood learning, Deaf education and sign language interpreting. The Guide provides key elements of laws that recognize sign language as a language and that promote its use in diverse situations in the daily life of Deaf persons. This Guide is the first publication on sign language that has been produced to support ESCAP member States in understanding the importance of sign language as a basis for the implementation of the Convention provisions with regard to Deaf persons, Deaf linguistic rights and Deaf culture. This Guide emanates from a collaborative endeavour between ESCAP and The Nippon Foundation.

I might change the first sentence to "Sign languages are real languages that use a visual modality."

This project was a great undertaking and this guide is an excellent resource with useful information, references and citations of important research, infographics, photographs and other materials. Japan is well represented. Especially on pages 54-55, 57-58, 89, 95,137 and 178.

For more information and a free download of the document! https://www.unescap.org/kp/2022/sign-language-what-it-escap-guide-towards-legal-recognition-sign-languages-asia-and-pacific#

New Resource: Behind the Camera

Introduction (from the source):

Behind the Camera is an open-source website that creates new critical directions on the history of photography, feminist art history, and the history of modern Japan. It is a pedagogical tool for the growing global investment in diverse and expanded histories of photography and gender studies.

Part database, part teaching module, the website’s primary resource is a series of short lecture videos created by experts in the field, each re-examining an aspect of the history of photography from a feminist lens. The videos are a part of exploration modules that include translated primary source materials, annotated bibliographies, and high-resolution images that make research opportunities available to a wider audience. These resources are linked to an interactive timeline that charts the activities and accomplishments of women photographers alongside major events in Japanese and photo history. The result of five years of collaborative information gathering from libraries around the world, these resources bring together disparate information on women and photography in Japan, so that scholars and students can use it to draw connections and produce new scholarship on this important, understudied subject.

Cushman, Carrie and Kelly McCormick, eds. Behind the Camera 1.0: Gender, Power, and Politics in the History of Japanese Photography. 2022. https://behindthecamerajapan.arts.ubc.ca/. Accessed August 11, 2022.

URL: https://behindthecamerajapan.arts.ubc.ca/

See also (less academic): Rare Historical Photos - Photographs that document the Japan’s transformation in the 1950s

URL: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/japan-photos-1950s/

"Japan in Transition: 20th-Century Photography from Kimura to Morimura"

"Morooka Koji, Jinrikisha (Rickshaw) in the Snow at Yanagibashi, 

from the Tokyo Sumidagawa Series, 1937. Gelatin silver print, 

19.9 × 26.6 cm. Yokohama Museum of Art"

Japan in Transition: 20th-Century Photography from Kimura to Morimura

Eriko Kimura
October 9, 2019

Presenting images by 28 photographers, the exhibition Hanran: 20th-Century Japanese Photography, on view at the National Gallery of Canada, illustrates the dramatic changes to the lives of ordinary people during the Shōwa period, Emperor Hirohito’s era from 1926 to 1989. Many of the works in the exhibition were taken in Tokyo. The exceptions are images made in places deeply scarred by World War II and the lasting presence of military bases such as Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Yokohama, Yokosuka and Okinawa. Tokyo is particularly significant as it underwent tremendous transformation, with its population increasing from approximately 4.69 million in 1926 to nearly 12 million in 1989, while the country’s overall population roughly doubled from approximately 61 million to 123 million. Twentieth-century Japan is seen in this exhibition as evolving in tandem with the momentous development and expansion of the Tokyo metropolis.

Following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, photographers, including Kōji Morooka, Hiroshi Hamaya and Kineo Kuwabara, began to capture the changes taking place in Tokyo, recording its urbanization and modernization. How did the mixture of old and new in the city's districts, such as Ginza, Sumida and Asakusa, look to people at the time? Images of workers on the way to their jobs in Marunouchi, the dance halls in Ginza, the city's train station and the influx of Western cars provided people of the era with their first look at the urban culture of offices and bustling streets. The fresh and visual look of the city became a favourite motif of the Shinko Shashin (New Photography) movement, which flourished in the 1930s. Eschewing the romantic Pictorialist approach that preceded it, the group took its cues from Western avant-garde photography. Focusing on the camera's "mechanical eye," the artists created unique forms of expression using techniques such as extreme close-ups, elevated and wide angles and photomontage.

URL: https://www.gallery.ca/magazine/exhibitions/ngc/japan-in-transition-20th-century-photography-from-kimura-to-morimura

"Hanran: 20th-Century Japanese Photography"

Caption: "Kanemura Osamu, Keihin Machine Soul, 1996,

 gelatin silver print, 48 × 58 cm, Yokohama Museum of Art"

Hanran: 20th-Century Japanese Photography

Witness a period of socio-political upheaval in 20th-century Japan, through photographs from the Yokohama Museum of Art.

Inspired by the Japanese word for flooding, overflow, or deluge, Hanran reflects 20th-century Japan, from the early 1930s to the 1990s, through the lenses of 28 significant photographers. See this unforgettable exhibition, on view for the first time outside Japan, which calls attention to the costs of nuclear warfare and Japan’s extraordinary recovery – all unfolding in front of the camera's mechanical eye.

After its introduction to Japan in 1848, photography served documentary, political, photojournalistic and aesthetic purposes, as it did in the West. It captured public imagination through mass media, magazines, photobooks and an important amateur market.

Pictorialism, a painterly approach that legitimized photography as fine art, gave way to the avant-garde Shinko Shashin (New Photography) of the 1930s, which is where Hanran begins. Waves of photographic activity ebb and flow between realism and fabrication, tradition and modernity – from the shadows of war and its grim realities, to the radical are-bure-boke (grainy, blurry, out of focus) photos of Takuma Nakahira, to the contemporary focus on everyday issues, as well as gender and urban life. These photographers expanded the medium’s creative parameters, while Japanese industry developed some of the best camera equipment and film in the world.

Adapted from an extensive 2017 Yokohama Museum of Art exhibition, this presentation of more than 200 works invites visitors to learn more about a most expressive and innovative photographic culture.

Organized by the Yokohama Museum of Art in collaboration with the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada.

Friday, October 11, 2019 to Sunday, March 22, 2020

National Gallery of Canada
Canadian Photography Institute Galleries
380 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, ON K1N 9N4
Canada

URL: https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/exhibitions-and-galleries/hanran-20th-century-japanese-photography

Yōkai Senjafuda Digital Exhibition at University of Oregon Libraries

Figure in silhouette. Black slip with white text, orange slip with black text in upper right corner. Taishō period, 1912-1926. Gertrude Bass Warner Memorial Library. 

Description (from the web site): This digital exhibition focuses on tiny slips of paper—senjafuda 千社札—that depict Japanese ghosts and monsters—yōkai 妖怪. Both senjafuda and yōkai have their roots in Japanese popular culture in the early modern period (17th-19th centuries), and both continue to cast a spell on viewers today.

The phenomenon of senjafuda dates back to the late 18th century. They were originally made by pilgrims to paste on the walls of temples and shrines as a sort of devotional graffiti. Later they became collector’s items, and by the middle of the 19th century they had become miniature masterpieces of woodblock printed art. Senjafuda depict a dizzying variety of themes with meticulous craftsmanship and vivid, stylish graphic design.

Yōkai simply means “monster,” but it’s best understood as referring specifically to monsters (and sometimes ghosts) as imagined in early modern Japan, particularly as depicted in wood-block prints. From Mizuki Shigeru to Studio Ghibli, from The Ring to Yōkai Watch, Japanese popular culture (including anime, manga, books, and film) is full of yōkai imagery.

The University of Oregon’s collection of senjafuda is one of the largest in the world. It includes many senjafuda depicting yōkai. This exhibit uses senjafuda to explore yōkai culture, and yōkai to explore senjafuda culture.

The digital exhibition Yōkai Senjafuda is the result of a collaboration between the University of Oregon Libraries and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

URL: https://glam.uoregon.edu/yokaisenjafuda/page/welcome

"Photojournalist reveals unheard voices of 'Japanese wives' in N Korea"

Photo borrowed from norikohayashi.com: "NORTH KOREA 2017-2018" project.

See the UPDATE below.

Text from Japan Today, 6/17/19.

An award-winning photojournalist has shed light on forgotten Japanese women, who married Korean men and moved to North Korea in a 1959-1984 repatriation project.

"They have been in different settings since arriving in North Korea. Some of them have lost contact with their relatives in Japan, while some still wrestle with their conscience as they left their families in Japan behind," said Noriko Hayashi.

"Each of their lives is equally irreplaceable, and as most of them are getting old, we do not have that much time left to hear what they have to say," she added.

Recording their unheard voices and photographing their present-day lives, Hayashi will soon publish a book, "Japanese Wives Who Moved to Korea," on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the launch of the repatriation project.

It brought 93,000 people -- Koreans and their families including 1,830 Japanese wives -- to the North, which was hailed a "paradise on earth," with secure employment and housing.

Hayashi, 35, visited North Korea 11 times from 2013 to 2018 and met with nine Japanese wives. While North Korean guides or interpreters attended each interview, Hayashi said she did not feel too constrained by them.

...

Tokyo-based Iwanami Shoten Publishers will publish Hayashi's book, which will cost just over 1,000 yen with 32 photos, on June 20.

Read the whole story: https://japantoday.com/category/national/feature-photojournalist-reveals-unheard-voices-of-japanese-wives-in-n.-korea

This is a fascinating and very important project. It is unfortunate that no photos were included with the news story. Luckily Noriko Hayashi has a great website with information about her projects and lots of great and illuminating photos. This project isn't listed on her website yet but there are plenty of other photos from North Korea. And other places as well. I highly recommend checking out her work.

Noriko Hayashi's website: https://norikohayashi.com/

Of personal interest is a project about a young deaf boy in Cambodia living with HIV/AIDS. (VAOJ readers are familiar with my research on HIV/AIDS in Japan, especially concerning Deaf communities.)

https://norikohayashi.com/living-with-hiv-and-deafness-bunhengs-story

UPDATE!

The Japan Times (6/18/19) ran the same story with a picture.

Caption: Mitsuko Minakawa, one of the Japanese wives who moved to North Korea, holds her wedding picture, taken in 1960 in Hakodate, Hokkaido, at her apartment in Wonsan in August 2016. 

COURTESY NORIKO HAYASHI VIA KYODO

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/18/national/photojournalist-documents-unheard-voices-japanese-wives-went-north-korea/

New Resource: Digital Humanities Japan

Announcement from Paula R. Curtis via H-Japan:

The Digital Humanities Japan initiative is pleased to formally announce the launch of our website and its associated content. This includes a mailing list and a resource wiki.

Our wiki contains (among other things):

Scholars Directory - A submission form where you can list yourself a DH Japan scholar, including your current projects, skill sets, and contact information. We hope this will enhance everyone's ability to find collaborators and find new and fascinating work in the field.

Publications - An open-access google doc where you can list your publications or the publications of others related to the intersection of DH/Japan, whether informational blog posts or peer-reviewed writing.

DH Tools - A list of Japan-specific digital tools, as well as a database of broader DH Tools, separated by category.

There is much more on the wiki, and we hope that the present resources will help facilitate more work on the intersection of Japan and Digital Studies. We encourage contributions from the community to help our resources grow. Contact information is available on the DHJ site for those with any questions.

Mission Statement (from the website): Digital Humanities Japan is an international and interdisciplinary community of scholars and professionals interested in working with digital methods, tools, and resources for Japanese Studies. As a collective, we aim to foster collaboration between those with similar interests by promoting scholarly dialogue, holding workshops to develop technical skills and project ideas, and creating a central platform for the sharing of resources related to digital methods.

URL: http://dhjapan.org/

UBC Meiji at 150 Digital Teaching Resource

Announcement from H-Japan:

The Centre for Japanese Research and UBC Library at the University of British Columbia are proud to announce the launch of the Meiji at 150 Digital Teaching Resource (DTR). Curated and edited by Tristan Grunow and Naoko Kato, the Meiji at 150 DTR presents open-source scholarly content that will be useful for educators and academics looking for new images and topics to introduce into their classroom teaching, while highlighting the academic research made possible using UBC Library’s digital archives. Along with collating numerous Digital Resources documenting the early modern and modern eras, the Meiji at 150 DTR features over a dozen Visual Essays by prominent scholars of Japanese history, literature, and culture, pairing digital images and analysis to re-visualize cartography, political turmoil, and natural disasters in the late-Tokugawa period; urban change and architecture in Meiji Tokyo; poetry, fashion, and photography; and the history of Japanese overseas migration and the prewar Japanese-Canadian community in Vancouver. These essays are also available in open-source e-textbook form as Digital Meijis: Revisualizing Modern Japanese History at 150 through the BCcampus platform. The Meiji at 150 Digital Teaching Resource is one aspect of the UBC Meiji at 150 Project, comprised of a lecture series, workshop series, and ongoing podcast series. See our website for more details, to access video and audio recordings of past events, or to listen to podcast interviews with leading scholars of Japanese history, literature, art, and culture.

Website: https://meijiat150.arts.ubc.ca/

Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's new photo website

Sample photo - "Fukushima Sazae-do Hall" 

(https://photo.kankouyohou.com/photo/7/?img=0)

Announcement from EASIANTH:

From the PHOTO METI PROJECT website:

PHOTO METI PROJECT is a platform to introduce various parts of Japan with beautiful representative images.

By collecting and showcasing images rich in nature and sceneries of high cultural context, we will introduce our country, Japan. Images on this site are presented based on Creative Commons; meaning that we promote secondary use. Starting from here, we hope more people will be interested in Japan and choose Japan as their next destination. By connecting with “Kankoyoho Platform”, which is a database of Japanese sightseeing information, we will introduce basic information and degree of congestion as well as information for foreign visitors for each area. We are working to welcome photo posts from you in the future which we believe will strengthen PHOTO METI PROJECT as a co-creation sightseeing platform.

URL: https://photo.kankouyohou.com/

Free and Open Access of Alexander Street Press Anthropology Resources (limited time only)

Announcement via EASIANTH. This is free access to a wide variety of films, text and other resources. Take advantage of this open access while you can!

For a limited time the full range of Alexander Street Press anthropology collections, video and text, are available open access to the academic community.

Access to all our anthropology collections is available until 30 September using the following link:

http://cts.vresp.com/c/?AlexanderStreetPress/0e2dffab45/c5f17653f7/6da9ee2676

Just click on the collections in your area of interest and start exploring today -there are seven collections released, available as stand alone collections or customized packages.

If prompted the user name is reviewer and the password is 578heroic3

Deaf Worlds HIV/AIDS and Deaf Communities is still available!

In a recent post, I incorrectly stated that the Deaf Worlds HIV/AIDS and Deaf Communities focused edition was out of print and no longer available. I am happy to say I was wrong. This important book is still available, and at a discount price.

The major themes of the book are that HIV/AIDS seems to be a bigger problem for deaf people than hearing people, mostly due to the fact that HIV/AIDS information is rarely available in sign languages. In many countries rates of HIV/AIDS infections are higher for deaf people than for hearing people. The book includes articles, reports and poetry about deaf people with HIV/AIDS in Africa, the United States, Latin America, Europe and Asia.

This is not a plug or plea for you to buy the book. It is a request that you read it, spread the word about the problem and add to the discourse on improving the situation. How have things changed (or improved) since the time of the research in this book?

Available at Forest Books: http://www.forestbooks.com/forest/sale-items/deaf-worlds-hiv__aids-and-deaf-communities/0946252610.html

Also available at Amazon.co.uk: http://www.amazon.co.uk/HIV-AIDS-Deaf-Communities-Worlds/dp/0946252610

For information about my article dealing with HIV/AIDS in the Japanese Deaf World: http://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.jp/2007/08/hivaids-in-japan.html

I am still willing to send a copy of my article to anyone who is intereted.

The New Kinema Club Website

Announcement from H-Japan:

Kinema Club, the website devoted to the study of Japanese moving image media, is moving! The preliminary version of the new site is already up with a new address. With the new site, we envision a renewed and active Kinema Club functioning as a site for information and new work on Japanese cinema and other media. In particular, Kinema Club will begin to function as a peer-reviewed electronic publication allowing scholars to present new ideas. Here are some of the new and old functions:

Research: Kinema Club will now publish peer-reviewed conference reports and research and film notes. We envision presenting kinds of work that are not well-accommodated by existing journals, or that are designed to encourage discussion, not present final conclusions.

Resources: As before, Kinema Club will offer bibliographies, guides to online articles, tables of contents and other information valuable to the study of Japanese cinema.

Education: Kinema Club will continue to present sample syllabi and other information beneficial to education in Japanese moving image media

Conferences: As an organization Kinema Club continues to hold annual conferences and workshops. The website will offer the most up-to-date information on those events.

KineJapan: The mailing list run by Kinema Club remains a vibrant space for discussing Japanese film. The new website offers a quick guide on how to participate on KineJapan.

As the new site gets going, we encourage your suggestions and submissions.

URL: http://kinemaclub.org/

"University of Michigan New Digital Image Collections in Japanese Studies"

Announcement from H-Japan:

University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service (DLPS) has completed 3 new digital image collection projects in Japanese studies. These collections are open to the public for educational and research purposes.

Brower Fund Collection: Playing Cards:
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/brower1ic

Alfred Hussey Collection: Japan's Constitution Slides: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/hussey1ic

Alfred Hussey Collection: Japan's Constitution Photo Album: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/hussey2ic

See also the UM Digital Library Production Service (DLPS) for all of their on-line resources: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/lib/colllist/

New Resource: Great Kantō Earthquake Japan, September 1923 Image Site

Announcement from H-Japan:

The Great Kanto Earthquake Japan of 1923 provides access to 199 images from a historical album of still photos captured destruction by the deadliest earthquake occurred on September 1st, 1923.

The project was funded by the University of Hawaii at Manoa Library and the National Research Center, East Asia Grant (NRC-EA).

http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/earthquake/

"Distinctiveness versus Universality: Reconsidering New Japanese Photography"

おすすめです！ Check out the new article by Yoshiaki Kai about Japanese photography at Trans Asia Photography Review.

Link: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/tap/7977573.0003.203?view=text;rgn=main

New website on Nonaka Kofun by the Osaka University Department of Archaeology

Announcement from EASIANTH:

The Osaka University Department of Archaeology has created an English-language website in conjunction with its Project for the Preservation and Utilization of Artifacts from Nonaka Kofun.

Built in the 5th century in Fujiidera City, Osaka Prefecture, the Nonaka tomb (kofun) is situated roughly at the center of the Furuichi Tomb Cluster. The 1964 excavation conducted by Osaka University revealed that this kofun offered many important clues for our study of state formation in Japan.

Nonaka Kofun is an especially valuable resource for the study of ancient Japan, with its numerous artifacts evidencing the military, economic, and technological strength of the Yamato Kingdom.

Many of the pictures and videos are being released to the public for the first time.

Link: http://www.let.osaka-u.ac.jp/kouko/nonaka/en/index.html
 

CLOSE-UP

Announcement from H-Japan:

Since 2005, Close-Up has established itself as a unique film resource. Our guiding principle is to provide access for everyone to film culture and history through our library, film screenings and publication of Vertigo magazine.

Our catalogue of over 17,000 films and books is unrivalled and our regular screenings are renowned for supporting and developing the exhibition of independent and experimental cinema in London. Close-Up wholly incorporates the prestigious film journal Vertigo, the archive of which has been fully revised and made completely available for free online.

Our new project is the creation of an independent cinema in the East End of London. The programme will consist of repertory cinema and the presentation of radical new artists' films and videos. We have recently secured a venue and the cinema is planned to open in Autumn 2013.

Run on a non-profit basis the company reinvests all its revenue to maintain the continuing growth of this invaluable film resource. In the current economic climate your contribution is essential in enabling us to continue this work. It will help us to continue to build the catalogue of our extensive library, further publication of Vertigo Magazine and with the future development of our new cinema.

Close-Up web site: http://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/

Trans-Asia Photography Review: “Women’s Camera Work: Asia”

Announcement:

The spring 2012 issue of the Trans-Asia Photography Review, entitled “Women’s Camera Work: Asia,” has just been released. This issue includes over 200 photographs, representing past and present women photographers working in Thailand, Japan, India, China and Korea, along with scholarly writings, which expand our knowledge of the field.

Link: http://tapreview.org/