OK, that's weird, when I first visited the OPs link I could swear it was to a page on the Telegraph newspapers website that had no image (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8109291...) clearly now though it's not. Maybe I got my browser tabs confused.... apologies for starting this pointless thread!
Spooky. My original post did link to the Telegraph website (which had no image). I have no idea why and how it got updated to link to japanesetimes.co.jp, which has that picture. Maybe some HN AI magic? :)