The JPS started as Japan's first organization for amateur photographers, although professionals later joined as well.
Of the fifty-six founding members, twenty-four were foreigners, and among these W. K. Burton served as secretary.
The JPS arranged various photographic activities: criticism, modeling sessions, exhibitions and so forth.
The society seems to have folded at some time shortly after 1896, as a result of the bankruptcy of its main sponsor, Kajima Seibei.
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