[Announcing the Death of Hirohito, Tokyo, Chuo-ku, Ginza]

Creator

Japanese Photographer · 1925–2019

Originally from the city of Ōita, Shigeichi Nagano graduated from Tokyo's Keio University with a degree in economics and prepared to enter the corporate world of white-collar work. Hired for an editorial job at *Shukan Sun* News magazine in the late 1940s, he soon left to become a photographer after observing some of Japan's finest photojournalists from that post. Within ten years he was chronicli