Nishino Takashi

Born in Tokyo, 1941. Essayist and photographer. Graduate of Hakodate Chūbu High School and Keiō University, where he majored in economics. Returned to his childhood home in his mid-thirties and launched the first community FM radio station in Japan, FM Iruka, while also managing the Mount Hakodate Ropeway. Has also served on the Hokkaidō Prefectural Board of Education, as the secretary of a girl’s high school, and as publisher of the local Hakodate magazine Machi. For the past 30 years, Nishino has been photographing the harbors and towns of Japan’s north with monochrome film and his beloved Leica. Author of Whiskey Bonbon and many other works.

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