With the Olympics just around the corner, a Japanese sportswear line has introduced infrared-blocking fabric to protect athletes from illicit photography.
Arri Japan emailed its customers informing them of a temporary closure of its Japan-based offices and service operations, citing a weak yen against the euro.
More data from Japan shows that, looking back at the last 15 years, smartphones truly obliterated the compact camera market: the ownership rate of a standalone digital camera in Japan has fallen below 50% for the first time in 19 years.
Younger photographers continue to be attracted to older point and shoot cameras and, in absence of their general availability, appear to be turning to very affordable alternatives such as the Kodak PixPro FZ55 -- a camera very few enthusiasts have likely even heard of.
Due to a significant surge in tourism, Japanese authorities will build a large barrier to block views of Mount Fuji within Fujikawaguchiko, a town of about 25,000 residents located in the foothills around Mt. Fuji.
It is highly unlikely that you have not heard of the Fujifilm X100VI. Similarly, you've probably seen some polarizing discourse around it. For some reason, it's seemingly only appropriate to love this camera or dunk on it. There is no in between.
A drone assisted by a snake-like robot has captured the first images from inside the Fukushima nuclear power plant since its meltdown disaster 13 years ago.
A photographer has been accused of trespassing into a murder suspect's home as he barricaded himself inside the property during a 12-hour standoff with cops.
The streets and skies of Japan come alive in a new timelapse video titled Dreamlapse Japan 2.
Japanese photography store Champ Camera has rustled up quite a social media following because of the shop's remarkable collection of rare and unusual films.
The city of Kyoto wants to stop tourists taking photos of Geishas -- with tensions over the issue reaching boiling point.
Last week, Japan became the fifth country to land a spacecraft on the Moon successfully. However, the historic accomplishment had its challenges. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) landed upside-down on the lunar surface, preventing the lander from recharging its batteries with its included solar panels.
The annual BCN Awards provide a reasonably good indication of what cameras and lenses proved popular in the year past, and the BCN Awards 2024 show that some familiar faces sold a lot of photography equipment last year.
Map Camera, one of the largest photography retailers in Japan, has published its list of the 10 best-selling lenses of 2023 and the results are somewhat surprising.
The "Earth's newest island" can be seen growing from space in newly-released satellite photos.
A Japanese camera store has updated its sales floor and strategy in response to not only greatly growing demand but also consumer buying trends. It has also noted that what buyers want is becoming increasingly polarized.
Panasonic Japan has started a new service that lets photographers lease out camera kits that is an extension of the company's Tokyo-based rental service.
This past weekend saw Formula 1 arrive in Japan, and in a country with a rich amateur photographer culture, it is perhaps no surprise that organizers of the Japanese Grand Prix at the Suzuka Circuit sell special tickets for sports shooters.
Japan will begin testing security cameras equipped with "behavior detection" technology that is designed to catch criminals before they commit crimes.
Nikon, which just two years ago floundered well below its contemporaries, is once again making waves. The Z8 has proven incredibly popular and has propelled the company back up the sales charts.
In the first such declaration of its kind, Japan has seemingly asserted that it will not enforce copyrights when it comes to training generative artificial intelligence (AI) programs.
A group of surviving victims of the atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki are using a U.S. military photo as new evidence in a lawsuit claiming that they were exposed to radiation.
Japan is introducing its first nationwide laws to criminalize exploitative "photo voyeurism."
Ricoh has already sold out of its Japanese allocation of Pentax K-3 Mark III Monochrome cameras twice. Clearly, the company's latest DSLR is extremely popular.
Researchers from the University of Western Australia (UWA) and scientists from Japan have recorded a fish swimming at a depth of more than eight kilometers (about five miles), setting a record for the deepest fish ever caught on camera.
Last summer, Canon partnered with Japanese toy manufacturer Takara Tomy to produce two Transformer toys that took the shape of cameras, but they were only available in Japan. That has changed and the partnership has also given rise to a third disguised robot option.
Hidari is a new stop-motion film that blends the aesthetic of anime with hand-carved wooden puppets that have been meticulously posed to create fantastical scenes.
Nikon is considering reinvestment in mainland Japan manufacturing through a new expansion of its facility in Otawara City, which currently hosts its only remaining Japan-based optics factory.
A long list of Sony's consumer products is getting a 14% price hike starting on February 1, the company announced today. That includes the Alpha series of cameras and interchangeable lenses.
Canon is no stranger to trying out new things on cameras and its latest concept puts a haptic motor behind the shutter button to provide silent feedback from the camera in place of sounds.