22 June NHK Fureai Hall, NAKBA, Q&A with Director: Ryuichi Hirokawa
‘A single photograph has the power to change the course of a nation.’
DAYS
Ryuichi Hirokawa to Appear at the Refugee Film
Festival
Ryuichi Hirokawa, renowned war photographer and
editor-in-chief of DAYS
Nakba, meaning
disaster or catastrophe in Arabic, chronicles the suffering of Palestinians
removed from their native villages when the state of
Born in 1943, Mr. Hirokawa moved to
For further information on Nakba, its RFF screening, and Ryuichi Hirokawa, please click the
following links;
http://www.nakba.jp/e-index.html
http://www.hiropress.net/
http://www.daysjapan.net/
http://homepage2.nifty.com/tsubakihara/e/info_e/ie/ihirokawa.html
A partial list of notable awards for Ryuichi Hirokawa:
1982 Yomiuri Photo Grand Prize
(for photos of the civil war in
1983 International Organization of Journalists Prize
1989 Kodansha Publishers Prize
(for reports of nuclear accidents in
1993 Sankei News Children’s Prize
(for the collection of
photographs “From
1998
(for the book, “The Battlefield of Human Beings”)
1999