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.
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.
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.
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.