Today, Monday, local media said that Tsuneko Sasamoto, a pioneering photographer who is considered the first Japanese photojournalist, has died at the age of 107. Posted by Reuters.

Sasamoto was born in Tokyo in the year the First World War began. Contrary to her father’s wishes, she left home economics studies to secretly enter a painting institute to fulfill her dream of painting and worked as an illustrator for the “Tokyo Nishinichi Shimbun” newspaper then called, Today’s Mainichi newspaper, which is One of the biggest trading in the Asian country, but her father thwarted her.

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Inspired by a black and white film she saw with a friend, she started working as a photographer. In 1940, Sasamoto was one of the founders of the Association of Professional Photojournalists in Japan, and in 1950 she was an honorary member of it until 2011, which is still awarded an award in her name.