What We Learned This Week: Remembering Tsuneko Sasamoto, Japan's First Female Photojournalist
Above: Raymond Carver and Truman Capote by Marion Ettlinger
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Tsuneko Sasamoto was a pioneering photographer. Considered to be Japan's first female photojournalist, she captured the lives of civilians under the country's tumultuous Showa era, during which, as CNN noted this week, Japanese fascism and nationalism rose and imperial troops …