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Japanese photographer

Hiroji Kubota (久保田 博二, Kubota Hiroji, born 2 August ) is a Japanese photographer, a member of Magnum Photos who has specialized in photographing the far east.

Born in Kanda (Tokyo), Kubota studied politics at Waseda University, graduating in ^[1] In he met the Magnum photographers René Burri, Elliott Erwitt, and Burt Glinn.^[2] He then studied journalism and international politics at the University of Chicago, and became an assistant to Erwitt and Cornell Capa, in , a freelance photographer.^[1]

Kubota photographed the US presidential election and then Ryūkyū islands before their return to Japan in He then photographed Saigon in , North Korea in , and China in –85, and the USA in –92, resulting in books and exhibitions.^[1]

Kubota won the Mainichi Art Prize in ,^[2] and the Annual Award of the Photographic Society of Japan in ^[3] Three of his publications won him the first Kodansha