Tokyo As An Approach To Life

Urs Schoettli (columnist)
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Tokyo Greater Area measures 13'000 square kilometers. Approximately 40 million people live in the region, which has a an economic power that corresponds to Germany's. Tokyo is Japan's political, economic, and cultural centre. It's Japan's culinary stomach and in terms of entertainment, fashion, and shopping a mecca for all age groups. Tokyo is an attitude and an approach to life.

The columnist Urs Schoettli talks about his adopted city, in which he got stuck 15 years ago.

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The traditional Japanese puppet theatre ‹BUNRAKU› rarely leaves the land of the rising sun. It is therefore a great honour for the CULTURESCAPES festival to kick off this year’s programme ‹Tokyo 2014› with an enthralling artistic Bunraku performance.
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National Bern
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Schauspielhaus Zürich
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‹Josi› or ‹onnanoko›, ‹girls› in Japanese, have been common elements of Japanese animation since its very beginning. These characters with their innocent faces and oversized round eyes have deeply shaped the perception of anime and manga in the West.
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Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana
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Musik-Akademie
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Rie Nakajima
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Berner Münster
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Opening Culturescapes in Uster
This year, CULTURESCAPES takes also place in Uster. The city's representative, Peter Pfeifer, welcomes the guests in German and Japanese and presents the upcoming programme.
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Stadthaus Uster
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Les Affichages Tokio (‹The Tokio Billposting›)
Vernissage of the EXHIBITION
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Stadthaus-Platz
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Life Stripe: Life Patterns From Japan
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18:30 h
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Kamishibai
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Literature
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19/10
Kulturhaus Bider & Tanner
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Floating Time
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Villa Grunholzer
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Miniascape Window
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Oslo 8 - gallery for contemporary photography
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Pi.Collection Au Japon
Fashion show by Pia Hermann
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16:00 h
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Japanische Schule Uster
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A Burden Of Flowers
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Literaturhaus Basel
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Literaturhaus Zürich
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AKI & KUNIKO
Guitar & Koto
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20:30 h
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the bird's eye jazz club
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Im Rathaus um 4
20:45 h
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Teatro Sociale Bellinzona
20:30 h
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Kulturpunkt Flawil
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07/11
Théâtre Cité Bleue
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Museum Tinguely
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The concert project ‹Yamanote› is a city map of sounds.
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20:00 h
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Museum Tinguely
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Le Pantographe
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Gare du Nord
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Mon Père, Giacometti
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Paul Klee And Metabolism
Architectural movement in 1960s' Japan
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19:00 h
05/11
Stadthaus Gemeinderatssaal
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Silent Flowers
Faust Quartet, as part of ‹Japanese Night›
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19:00 h
08/11
Gare du Nord
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Tokyo Monogatari
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Central Uster
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Tokyo Family
Film by Yôji Yamada J 2013 / Original version, German and French subtitles
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20:30 h
09/11
Central Uster
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Cooking Together
Words, gestures, and ingredients interacting
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19:00 h
11/11
Markthalle
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Box In The Big Trunk
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Theater
20:00 h
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Theater Chur
20:00 h
13/11
Theater Chur
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Kaserne Basel
20:00 h
20/11
Kaserne Basel
20:00 h
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Kaserne Basel
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Drinking Tea In Japan, Great Britain And East Friesland
CANCELED because of unsufficient registration
Focus
19:00 h
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Markthalle
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Super Premium Soft Double Vanilla Rich
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Kaserne Basel
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13/11
Kaserne Basel
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Kaserne Basel
18:00 h
22/11
Gessnerallee
18:00 h
23/11
Gessnerallee
20:00 h
25/11
Theater Chur
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Sushi Workshop
With Mi Kim
Focus
18:00 h
14/11
Markthalle
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Itoh & Yamashita
Kim Itoh and Zan Yamashita are pioneers of the contemporary dance scene in Japan.
Theater
20:00 h
15/11
Kaserne Basel
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16/11
Kaserne Basel
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The Fascination Of Organs
Mari Fukumoto
Music
18:00 h
16/11
Basler Münster
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The End Of The Special Time We Were Allowed
Toshiki Okada
Literature
19:00 h
18/11
Literaturhaus Basel
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Ryoji Ikeda
Curator: Sabine Himmelsbach
Art
18:30 h
21/11
HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel)
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Dragonball
Manga performance
Focus
20:00 h
21/11
Markthalle
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Mind the gap! – tokyo edition
Mind the gap! – tokyo edition
Music
23:00 h
21/11
Kaserne Basel
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Japan-Gate Iii
The Japanese working world
Focus
14:00 h
22/11
SJCC Alumni Organisation
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New Short Films From Japan
Three years ago, Tamaki Okamoto founded her own film production company ‹CARTE BLANCHE› in Paris.
Film
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Logical Emotion: Gutai, Mono-Ha Und Die Metabolisten – Japanese Contemporary Art
Sabine Schaschl (director museum Haus Konstruktiv)
Focus
19:00 h
28/11
Volkshochschule Zürich
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‹Toky(o)bsessions›
For more than twenty years the Tokyo-born photographer and reporter Kyoichi Tsuzuki (*1956) has been travelling the length and breadth of Japan, capturing the country’s hidden treasures.
Art
14:00 h
27/09
Unternehmen Mitte
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‹I never read›
Art books and art editions by Japanese artists as well as works on Japanese art are exhibited for one week in the hall of Kunsthalle Basel.
Focus
20:00 h
27/09
Kunsthalle
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‹Bloom›
The artist, born in 1968 in Japan, studied at first oil painting.
Art
13:00 h
27/09
Choisi - one at a time
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‹Logical emotion – contemporary art from Japan›
‹Logical Emotion› at Museum Haus Konstruktiv shows a large group exhibition of contemporary Japanese artists for the very first time.
Art
17:45 h
02/10
Haus Konstruktiv
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‹Kan-butsu›
Markthalle Basel offers gustatory access to Japan's capital city: the Japanese artist Haruna Nakayama and three events by Kulinarium Basel present culinary aspects of Japan.
Focus
17:00 h
10/10
Markthalle
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‹Les affichages Tokio› (‹the Tokio billposting›)
Formerly trading silk, Peter Schulthess has been influenced in his artistic creation by the far east.
Art
20:30 h
15/10
Stadthaus-Platz
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‹Life stripe: life patterns from Japan›
At first glance, the multicoloured striped rectangles could be taken for concrete works of art.
Art
18:00 h
19/10
RappazMuseum
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‹Floating time›
Born in Tokyo, Akiko Sato lives now in Italy and Switzerland.
Art
21:00 h
19/10
Villa Grunholzer
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‹Inspirational Japan›
European Modern painting would have had a quite other face without Japanese influences - this is art historian Kristina Piwecki's thesis that serves as a starting point to discuss East and West in art.
Focus
20:30 h
20/10
Volkshochschule Zürich
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‹The shôsôin› The treasure house of the emperor
The Shôsôin, the Japanese imperial treasure house from the 8th century, holds a large collection of art objects from Japan's Nara and Heian time as well as Tang-China.
Focus
20:30 h
21/10
Volkshochschule Zürich
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‹La forma del vuoto›
The sculptor and artist Kenjirô Azuma (*1926) has produced a book with the title ‹La Forma del Vuoto›, translated to English ‹The Form of the Void›.
Art
17:00 h
22/10
Choisi - one at a time
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‹Miniascape window›
The concept of the small format photograph series refers to a Japanese tradition.
Art
17:00 h
24/10
Oslo 8 - gallery for contemporary photography
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‹Origami – the art of paper folding from Japan›
Gift wrappings and Christmas decoration.
Focus
18:30 h
28/10
Volkshochschule beider Basel
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‹Anime and manga›. Cyberpunk, natural catastrophes and other worlds
Cancelled due to insufficient registration.
Focus
20:30 h
04/11
Volkshochschule Zürich
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‹Fantastic Japan›. Ôe, Murakami, Ikezawa
Literature expert Eduard Klopfenstein will provide an insight into more recent literature with the help of three central authors: ...
Focus
20:30 h
20/11
Volkshochschule Zürich
19:15 h
26/11
Volkshochschule beider Basel
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Ryoji ikeda
On 21 to 23 November, HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel) will celebrate its reopening at new premises at Freilagerplatz on the Dreispitz area in Basel.
Art
14:00 h
22/11
HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel)
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‹Japanese art: past and present›
Art Historian Hans Bjarne Thomsen will illustrate the impact of Japanese art on European artists during the event ‹Japanese arts: Past and Present›.
Focus
18:15 h
24/11
Volkshochschule beider Basel
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‹Samurai and cheese›. Swiss emigrants in 19th century Japan
In 19th century, Japan saw fundamental reforms and opened its borders.
Focus
20:30 h
19/01
Volkshochschule Zürich
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