Sakae Tamura (nature photographer)

Tamura worked from 1936 till 1973 in a succession of editorial posts, mostly preparing educational materials about nature.

The first of these was within Kōgasha (光画社), where he worked on the photography magazine Gekkan Kogata Kamera (月刊小型カメラ).

He subsequently moved to Seibundō Shinkōsha (誠文堂新光社), where he was the chief editor of the magazine of science for children Kodomo no Kagaku (子供の科学) and the astronomy magazine Tenmon Gaido (天文ガイド).

[2] Tamura won an award from the Ministry of Education in 1951 for the book Konchū no seitai.

In a book-length anthology of these published in 1962, he pointed out the decrease in the variety of bird life, and warned of the danger of further increases to come.