Famous in Japan

Manjiro Nakahama, image from "The Presentation of a Samurai Sword" at Millicent Library (1918) A fateful shipwreck is what drastically...

Junko Tabei in 1985 at Communism Peak (now known as Ismoil Somoni Peak) in Tajikistan, Jaan Künnap ,  CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia...

Portrait of Shigeru Kayano A prominent figure in the Ainu movement, Shigeru Kayano was the first Ainu representative in Japan's...

Ayako Miura in 1966 (from the Monthly Christ January issue) With almost 80 works to her name, Ayako Miura (née Hotta) was a prolific...