Product Information Publisher: Days Japan Co., Ltd.; First edition (2012/1/1) Release date: 2012/1/1 Language: Japanese Hardcover: 160 pages ISBN-10: 4990198204 ISBN-13: 978-4990198206 [Content introduction] Ryuichi Hirokawa, also the editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine DAYS JAPAN, finally publishes his long-awaited photo collection, 14 years after his previous work, "Human Battlefield." From Palestine, Chernobyl, Afghanistan, Iraq, to the 3.11 tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear power plant. This photojournalist Ryuichi Hirokawa's complete record contains numerous photographs that have consistently captured the hidden truths while focusing on the victims' perspectives. Ryuichi Hirokawa Born in Tianjin, China in 1943. Graduated from the Faculty of Education, Waseda University in 1967. Went to Israel in the same year and returned to Japan in 1970. After that, he worked as a photojournalist, covering the Middle Eastern countries. He received the Yomiuri Photography Award and the IOJ International Photojournalism Contest Grand Prize and Gold Prize for his records of the Lebanon War and the massacre in the Palestinian camps. He received the Kodansha Publishing Culture Award for his reports on the Chernobyl and Three Mile Island nuclear accidents. He received the Domon Ken Award for "Photo Record Palestine" (Nihon Tosho Center). Currently, he is the editor-in-chief of "DAYS JAPAN."