J M HammondJ M Hammond, based long-term in Tokyo, writes about aspects of Japanese art and culture, especially photography and film. With a degree in Visual and Performed Art from the University of Kent, he took his MA in Film Studies at the University of Exete, for which he wrote his 2011 dissertation on the use of "empty" space in the cinema of Yasujiro Ozu. His essay "A Sensitivity to Things: Mono No Aware in Late Spring and Equinox Flower" was included in Ozu International: Essays on the Global Influences of a Japanese Auteur (Bloomsbury, 2015). He had an entry each on the film directors Masaki Kobayashi and Susumu Hani included in the Directory of World Cinema: Japan (2014). Upcoming work includes an essay on images of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 in Museums and Photography: Displaying Death (forthcoming). Read More Read Less