The Japan Advertising Photographers' Association (日本広告写真家協会, Nihon Kōkoku-Shashinka Kyōkai), commonly called APA, was founded in 1958. It has held exhibitions since 1959 and publishes an annual survey of the most interesting photography.
Links and sources (in Japanese) APA-Japan.com Archived 2012-02-05 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese) Nihon shashinka jiten (日本写真家事典) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers). Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8