Yōnosuke Natori

After selling his wife Erna's photograph of the aftermath of the Munich Stadtmuseum burning to a local newspaper,[1] in 1931 he got a contract to work as a photographer for Ullstein, which in 1933 sent him to Manchuria to cover the Mukden Incident.

Natori returned to Japan and Japanese-held China, and worked through the wartime years on various Japanese propaganda organs, such as Shanghai and Canton.

In 1947, Natori set up Shūkan San Nyūsu (Weekly Sun News), inspired by Life and similar western magazines (though published on inferior paper).

This ended two years later, whereupon Natori edited and also did photography for Iwanami Shashin Bunko (1950–59).

He was busy in the fifties and made a number of trips outside Japan: to China in 1956, and to Europe every year from 1959 to 1962.