The big picture: Hara Mikiko captures a Tokyo tryst

​The ​Japanese actor turned ​photographer ​seeks an element of chance in her ethereal scenes from everyday life
International interest in Japanese photography has tended to focus on male photographers; a new book featuring 25 Japanese women practitioners, I’m So Happy You Are Here, aims to redress that balance. The collection takes in the history of Japanese women photographers with particular emphasis on those working from the 1950s to the 1990s.Many of the early s