Hiroshi Sugimoto is among four — including playwright Tom Stoppard — to win a 2009 Praemium Imperiale Award. (Via) Tweet... 

“When was the last time the biggest rock star on the planet [Bono] interrupted one of his signature songs in a stadium full of screaming people to give a shout out to a fine art photographer [Hiroshi Sugimoto]?” (Via) Tweet... 

Old-ish news, but Yutaka Takanashi’s 1974 Toshi-e is slated for publication as an Errata Edition. Tweet... 

The Keizo Kitajima exhibition has opened at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, running until Oct. 18. Kitajima’s work between 1975-1991 is on view. (.pdf previews available here and here). Tweet... 

Ferdinand Brueggemann of the now sadly intermittent Japan-Photo.info blog has posted his interview from last year with Japanese photography curator Mariko Takeuchi. (Part II is here). Tweet... 

Winners of this year’s 25th annual Higashikawa Prizes were Toshio Shibata (Domestic Photographer Prize), Naoki Ishikawa (New Photographer Prize), and Keiji Tsuyuguchi (Special Prize). Australian photographer Anne Ferran won the competition’s Overseas Photographer Prize. Tweet... 

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s The Provoke Era: Postwar Japanese Photography exhibition running from Sep – Dec 2009 will surely be one to see. Tweet... 

Daido Moriyama‘s favourite recipe: Tri-X in D-76 (Via) Tweet... 

250-plus Japanese Magic Lantern slides collected by an American during 1926-7. (Via) Tweet... 

Vince Aletti picks Ken Kitano as one of five up and coming photographers to watch, in April issue of Modern Painters. Tweet...