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The cover design of Number 1 Shimbun is seen in Tokyo, Tuesday, May 19, 2020. Tokyo Olympics officials are incensed that their games emblem has been used in the cover design of the local magazine that combines the logo with the novel coronavirus. The âlook-alikeâemblem, which had âCOVID-19â written underneath, was published on the cover the the April issue of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan s magazine. It also appeared in an online edition. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) Eugene Hoshiko
Commuters wearing face masks to protect against the new coronavirus wait in line for buses in the central business district in Beijing, Tuesday, May 19, 2020. China reported six new cases Tuesday, a day after Chinese President Xi Jinping announced his country would provide $2 billion to help respond to the outbreak and its economic fallout. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Fukushima and Japan’s Media Meltdown
10 years later, Japanese media have not shaken off the constraints that prevented meaningful investigative reporting after the Great East Japan Earthquake.
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March 12, 2021
Members of the media and Tokyo Electric Power Co. employees walk in front of the No. 4 reactor building, rear, crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, at the utility company’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, Saturday, May 26, 2012.
Credit: AP Photo/Tomohiro Ohsumi, Pool
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This week marks the 10-year anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011. The ensuring triple disaster – earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi – killed nearly 20,000 people, destroying dozens of towns, rendering thousands of hectares uninhabitable, and spreading contamination that will take decades to remediate.
from - to Tokyo | International Women in Photo Award 2020 exhibition
The Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo is hosting the opening exhibition of the finalists and winners of the International Women in Photo Award 2020 from February 8 - March 5, 2021.
To give more visibility to women photographers, IWPA acts as a platform and organizes the annual IWPA Award, a photography competition followed by exhibitions in major cities and capitals across the Middle East, Asia and Europe showing the work of the laureate and finalists to a large international audience.
All of the exhibitions were cancelled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, so IWPA is pleased to present for the first time in public a selection of photographs from the 2020 finalists, as well as special awards, in collaboration with the FCCJ. The winners were chosen by an international jury from 650 submissions from 70 countries and six continents. The current exhibition features only a limited numb