People waiting for a helicopter loaded with relief supplies 救援物資を積んだヘリを待つ人々

Japan in times of emergency

SAKAI Tokio

Vacuum Zone

KIMURA Tsunehisa

Local Specialty Soba

MINAMI Kenji

Moscow Newspaper Seller

WATANABE Yoshio

Water

SAKAI Tokio

Shrine Grounds

MINAMI Kenji

TANAKA Kinuyo

SAKAI Tokio

Beautiful secret

SAKAI Tokio

Interior of the U.S. embassy after the terrorist bombing

OKAMURA Akihiko

Parent and children at a shelter for refugees

OKAMURA Akihiko

Vietnam Operation to invade Laos by the South Vietnamese government forces. About 25 kilometers from the Lao border, armored vehicle units touched a minefield and exploded with a loud noise. At that moment, soldier knocked down from the armored vehicle by the impact and knelt with a grenade in his right hand, and injured soldiers hugged in the far left. One of these series of photographs became the cover of the March 12, 1971 issue of "LIFE"

OKAMURA Akihiko

South Vietnamese soldiers after escaping Laos and retreating to the base at Khe Sanh.

OKAMURA Akihiko

General William Westmoreland, acting commander of the United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, on an inspection tour. A checkpoint with police officers and soldiers

OKAMURA Akihiko

Walking along a road off the highway. According to estimates, more than 300,000 had died from starvation in Ethiopia by this time

OKAMURA Akihiko

The pilot of a relief plane leaving Sao Tome for Biafra. The flights were fraught with danger as the planes would be shot down if they strayed over Nigerian territory; each flight earned about 180,000

OKAMURA Akihiko

Attempting to make contact with the NLF Central Committee, Okamura was captured in the jungle in War Zone D (a hazardous area controlled by the NLF, north of Saigon). After 53 days of imprisonment, he succeeded in interviewing Huynh Tan Phat, deputy chairman of the NLF, who became president of the South Vietnamese Provisional Revolutionary Government in 1969

OKAMURA Akihiko