Beached Firefly Squid Light Up the Japanese Coast, Japan, 2013. The hotaru ika, or firefly squid, lives 2,000 feet below the water.

No less a photography colleague than Edward Weston was a fan. “Making Waves: Japanese American Photography, 1920-1940” chronicles the often-exceptional camera work of 40 artists.

It’s the type of image one expects to find in Lena Fritsch’s copiously illustrated “Ravens & Red Lipstick: Japanese Photography Since 1945.” A broad survey for Western audiences, the book ...

It led to the last assignment of my career, 20 years later. I did the photography for the Japanese Imperial Palace. I think I was chosen for that assignment because of the work I did in Hagi.

When construction on a resort in Japan’s Tochigi prefecture called for the removal of hundreds of trees, Tokyo-based architect Junya Ishigami saw to it that Mother Nature prevailed. Relocating ...