Japan to Protest Death of APF Photographer Kenji Nagai

Epigram

Talmud 7:16 as Quoted by Rishon Rishon in 2004
Qohelet Raba, 7:16
אכזרי סוף שנעשה אכזרי במקום רחמן
Kol mi shena`asa rahaman bimqom akhzari Sof shena`asa akhzari bimqom rahaman
All who are made to be compassionate in the place of the cruel In the end are made to be cruel in the place of the compassionate.
More colloquially translated: "Those who are kind to the cruel, in the end will be cruel to the kind."
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September 27, 2007

Japan to Protest Death of APF Photographer Kenji Nagai

He was Japanese.

He even had a name: Kenji Nagai.

The outfit for which he worked: APF News.

The Japanese web page for APF News (www.apfnews.com) seems not to have an English language doppelganger.

My lead follows from the earlier and uncertain mention of a Japanese photographer having been shot and killed in the violence in Myanmar.

That death has been confirmed.

Photojournalist Kenji Nagai, 52, was killed while covering the conflict in Myanmar. [2]

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Updated: September 29, 2007

Photographers get around, especially photojournalists covering conflicts. However, I haven't been able to confirm that Vancouver's photographer "Kenji Nagai", who has gallery and publishing credits in British Columbia, and Tokyo's "Kenji Nagai", who has a show at Gallery Kobo, are the same or different.

Oddly, I think, other top Googled references for Nagai do little as regards recounting his career.

So much, I might note, for my "second row seat" to history.

I'm going to cut the material that was here but continue using this medium (albeit with more e-mail than confined Google searches), to learn more about this figure who has certainly had a career as a "war photographer" if not a photographer of other artist's work with additional gallery and publishing credits apart from war.

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1. Bodeen, Christopher. "China Issue Please for Calm in Myanmar." WTOP News, September 27, 2007.

2. "Myanmar troops kills 9 protesters." Slide show. Reuters, September 27, 2007.

3. AP. "Myanmar soldiers fire on of anti-government protesters for 2nd day, killing 9 people." Sign On San Diego, September 27, 2007.

4. "Kenji Nagai Exhibition." Tokyo Art Beat.

5. "Calendar of Events." Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, September - December 2004.

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Posted on September 27, 2007 at 12:33 PM in U.S. Foreign Policy and Warfare | Permalink