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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.
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Jul 11, 2025
Japan¡¯s 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
Japan¡¯s 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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