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Japan: image credits

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Soichiro Honda
Soichiro Honda, Asahi Shimbun; individual photographer not identified, 1954; published in Asahigraph, New Year 1955 issue, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain (Japanese historic photograph; US non-restoration basis). Complete supplied frame retained; proportional reduction from 2129 × 2797 to 1370 × 1800 and WebP conversion only. No new crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Natsume Sōseki
Natsume Soseki, Ogawa Kazumasa (1860–1929), September 1912, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain (Japanese historic photograph; US non-restoration basis). Complete supplied frame retained; proportional reduction from 1378 × 1881 to 1319 × 1800 and WebP conversion only. No new crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa, Eiga no tomo magazine; individual photographer not identified, December 1953 publication; Seven Samurai set portrait, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain (Japanese historic photograph; US non-restoration basis). The supplied source was converted to black and white by its uploader in 2019. Complete supplied frame retained; proportional reduction from 1615 × 2705 to 1075 × 1800 and WebP conversion only. No new crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Fukuzawa Yukichi
Fukuzawa Yukichi, Unknown photographer; scan attributed to the National Diet Library, Before 1901; published in Kinsei Meishi Shashin, volume 2, 1934–1935, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain (Japanese historic photograph; US non-restoration basis). Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No new crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Hideki Yukawa
Ken Domon, 30 August 1950; published in Fūbō (ARS, 1953), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain under the specified Japanese historic-photo and US non-restoration basis. Complete supplied frame retained; proportional reduction from 3094 × 4480 to 1243 × 1800 and WebP conversion only. No new crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
Shigeru Tamura, undated sitting; published in Gendai Nihon no Hyakunin (Bungei Shunjū Shinsha, 1953), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain under the specified Japanese historic-photo and US non-restoration basis. Complete supplied frame retained; proportional reduction from 2628 × 3682 to 1285 × 1800 and WebP conversion only. No new crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, 1927. Unknown photographer; reproduced in the collected works, volume 6 (Iwanami, 1977), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain (historic Japanese photograph; US non-restoration basis). Complete supplied frame retained; proportional reduction from 1276 × 1848 to 1243 × 1800 and WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata, Ken Domon, published in Fūbō (ARS, 1953), via NDL and Wikimedia Commons. Public domain (historic Japanese photograph; US non-restoration basis). Complete supplied frame retained; proportional reduction from 3170 × 4584 to 1245 × 1800 and WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Akiko Yosano
Akiko Yosano, photographed by 1942. Unknown photographer; published in Yosano Akiko Shiikashū (1952), via NDL and Wikimedia Commons. Public domain (historic Japanese photograph; US non-restoration basis). Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Kenzaburo Oe
Hpschaefer / Wikimedia Commons, 4 November 2008, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Isao Takahata
Boungawa / Wikimedia Commons, 11 June 2014, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported. Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Shigeru Miyamoto
Vincent Diamante / Flickr and Wikimedia Commons, 7 March 2007, CC BY-SA 2.0. Complete supplied frame retained; proportional reduction from 3872 × 2592 to 1800 × 1205 and WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Hayao Miyazaki
Natasha Baucas / Wikimedia Commons, 2009, CC BY 2.0. Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Satoru Iwata
lithcast.com (DSCUBED) / Wikimedia Commons, May 2006, CC BY 3.0. Complete supplied frame retained; proportional reduction from 2048 × 1536 to 1800 × 1350 and WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Kazuo Inamori
Conrad Erb / Science History Institute, 8 April 2011, via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0. Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Konosuke Matsushita
National Diet Library, Japan, Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures, portrait 6214_2, source pid/1112044, image 80. Photographer unidentified. NDL states its exhibition portraits are out of copyright and permits commercial reuse with attribution. Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Kiichiro Toyoda
Photographer unidentified; Osaka Inventors Association, Teikoku Hatsumeika Meikan, Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun publishing department, 1937, NDL pid/1207646, image 312, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain, PD-Japan-oldphoto and PD-1996. Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Shinya Yamanaka
Dɐ, 24 February 2013; CC0 1.0. Complete supplied frame retained; proportional reduction from 3648 × 2736 to 1800 × 1350 and WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Kikunae Ikeda
National Diet Library, Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures; original photographer and date unestablished. Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Itō Hirobumi
Source: Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures, National Diet Library, Japan. Public Domain; commercial reuse expressly permitted by the exhibition terms. Photographer not identified in the supplied web caption. Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Shigeru Yoshida
Source: Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures, National Diet Library, Japan. Public Domain; commercial reuse expressly permitted by the exhibition terms. Photographer not identified in the supplied web caption. Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Nobusuke Kishi
Source: Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures, National Diet Library, Japan. Public Domain; commercial reuse expressly permitted by the exhibition terms. Photographer not identified in the supplied web caption. Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Satoshi Ōmura
Bengt Nyman, 6 December 2015, via Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 4.0. Complete supplied frame retained; proportional reduction from 3161 × 3161 to 1800 × 1800 and WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Takaaki Kajita
Bengt Nyman, 7 December 2015, via Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 4.0. Complete supplied frame retained; proportional reduction from 2762 × 2762 to 1800 × 1800 and WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Osamu Shimomura
Prolineserver / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Complete supplied frame retained; proportional reduction from 2592 × 3333 to 1400 × 1800 and WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Yoichiro Nambu
Betsy Devine; supplied file adjustments by WikiPedant / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Leo Esaki
Japan Academy website / 日本学士院ホームページ, CC BY 4.0-compatible government reuse terms. Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Shuji Nakamura
Glenn Beltz / Flickr, CC BY 2.0. Complete supplied frame retained; proportional reduction from 2977 × 2977 to 1800 × 1800 and WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Isamu Akasaki
文部科学省ホームページ; MEXT Research Promotion Bureau, CC BY 4.0-compatible government reuse terms. Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Hiroshi Amano
Alain Herzog / EPFL Media Library, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Yoshinori Ohsumi
Japan Academy, CC BY 4.0 under the linked MEXT reuse terms. Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Tasuku Honjo
Japan Academy, CC BY 4.0 under the linked MEXT reuse terms. Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Masatoshi Koshiba
Cabinet Public Relations Office / Prime Minister’s Office of Japan, via Wikimedia Commons; GJSTU2.0 / CC BY 4.0 compatible. Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Makoto Kobayashi
Marcella Bona / Flickr and Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0. Existing supplied Rotatebot2011orientation correction retained. Complete supplied frame retained; proportional reduction from 2000 × 3008 to 1197 × 1800 and WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Toshihide Maskawa
OIST / Flickr and Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. Complete supplied frame retained; proportional reduction from 3213 × 4819 to 1200 × 1800 and WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Eisaku Sato
Cabinet Public Affairs Office, Cabinet Secretariat, Japan / Prime Minister’s Office of Japan, PDL1.0 (CC BY 4.0 compatible). Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Kakuei Tanaka
Cabinet Public Affairs Office, Cabinet Secretariat, Japan / Prime Minister’s Office of Japan, PDL1.0 (CC BY 4.0 compatible). Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Yasuhiro Nakasone
Cabinet Public Affairs Office, Cabinet Secretariat, Japan / Prime Minister’s Office of Japan, PDL1.0 (CC BY 4.0 compatible). Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Kiichi Miyazawa
Cabinet Public Affairs Office, Cabinet Secretariat, Japan / Prime Minister’s Office of Japan, PDL1.0 (CC BY 4.0 compatible). Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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Morihiro Hosokawa
Cabinet Public Affairs Office, Cabinet Secretariat, Japan / Prime Minister’s Office of Japan, PDL1.0 (CC BY 4.0 compatible). Complete supplied frame retained; WebP conversion only. No additional crop, retouching or enlargement.
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