The Yoshinkan Aikido dojo in Takadanobaba, Tokyo.This was the first time I’ve photographed, or even seen, Aikido and was for my new job.  I was very kindly invited by 7th Dan master Jacques Payet.M...

One of the reasons I haven’t been posting much recently is that late last year I took a job as the editor of EURObiZ Japan, a new magazine for the members of the European Chamber of Commerce in Japa...

Tsukiji fish market is quickly turning into the photo destination in Tokyo. It’s colourful, chaoatic and real. It’s open 24 hours a day and about 10,000 people work there. What could be better?(Ju...

When I met Mitsuyasu Uchibori he gave me a business card that read “Summelier No 001″. He is Japan’s premier vinegar sommelier.  (Su-memlier is a pun on the Japanese word of vinegar, su.)And qu...

As I’ve written on this blog before, Tsukiji is about my favourite place in Tokyo. For anyone who’s interested in food – indeed in Japan – there is a lifetime’s worth of stuff to see, eat, l...

I writing this from frigid December Bath in the UK. Brrrr. I think these photos are actually making me feel colder.At the end of summer I travelled up to Katsunuma in Yamanashi prefecture. The area is...

Apologies for the long silence. It has been quite a busy few weeks at Tokyo Photojournalist, to say the least. I have just started editing a new magazine. More on that anon.In the meantime, here is a ...

Perhaps only Japan would have an event celebrating “2nd class food”? It’s probably something to do with the fact that even the fast food in Japan tends to be very good.This year the B1 Grand Pri...

A selection of photos from a personal project I’ve been working on recently.Street photography is pretty much how I started out, and I still love it. But not much time for wandering the backstreets ...

For a notably low-key city, Fukuoaka has a fair few superlatives to its name. It is Japan’s closest city to Korea which means it can lay claim to being Japan’s oldest city. In other words, it was ...

Nambu Tekki ironware is a specialty of a Iwate Prefecture in Northern Japan. I took these photos for a travel story last summer.This is the oven where they heat the pots and give them a special anti-r...

Not Japan and not photojournalism per se, but I’ve been meaning to post these here for a while. The summer before last I visited Poland with my family and trusty GR1.We were visiting my Polish relat...

There are some photographic subjects that are not exactly obviously photogenic. This was definitely one: Kamaboko AKA Japanese fish cake. I was shooting the white pasty food for an airline magazine. S...

This story was on the way back from Niigata early spring this year. Karl Bengs is a German architect who first visited Japan in 1966. He buys old Japanese farmhouses, dismantles them then rebuilds the...

My Rough Guide to Japan tells me that the Joetsu Shinkansen from Tokyo to Niigata was the most expensive train track in the world to build. It cost some 6 billion yen per kilometer and about one third...

I shot this story almost a year ago and its been a long wait to see it in print. But well worth it.Doglegs Superhandicapped Pro-Wrestling are a group of Tokyo disabled and able-bodied wrestlers.  I f...

Not taking stock photos this time . . I thought I’d dust off and share my unspectacular but well loved  film camera collection. Here’s the first of 11.Nikon FM2A sad side-effect of the huge conve...

When home is a fifty-something square meter Tokyo shoe box and the daily commute is shared with thousands in the same predicament, it’s easy to forget there are other ways of living.But photojournal...

A new word: phojo.Seem to have lost my phojo (photo-mojo) these last few weeks. Perhaps it is the summer heat? Perhaps it is the drip drip drip of desperate news on this industry? But I am shooting le...

Sado ferrySado seems to be one of those places that everyone talks about going to but few actually get to. After 10 years in Japan this was my first trip to the island, on a story for an airline magaz...