Tokyo No Hate
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was an energy accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima, initiated primarily by the tsunami following the Tohoku earthquake on 11 March 2011. Since then Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber met activists in Japan, joined protest demonstrations, exchanged with artists and learned a lot abour places, spaces and history in Japan.
Tokyo No Hate.
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
2018
Tokyo No Hate.
PhotobookMuseum Cologne / Tokyo Express
2022
SAKAE OSUGI
Sakae Ōsugi (*1885, †1923) was a Japanese anarchist. He traveled to Europe in 1923 and gave a May Day speech in Saint-Denis. There he was arrested by civilian police. He was sentenced to three weeks in prison and deportation for passport offences. On 2 June he was sent back to Japan where he later was murdered in the »Amakasu Incident«. In his book »My escapes from Japan« he mentiones a »workers’ hall« near the Basilica in Saint-Denis. Most likely he refers to the »Bourse du Travail« of Saint-Denis which was located in the Hotel de Ville at that time. In Feb 2023, almost 100 years after Sakae Ōsugi’s experiences in Saint-Denis, Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber walked from Hotel de Ville past Passage Saulger, rue des Ursulines and rue Suger until they finally reached Rue Génin, where you find the current Bourse du Travail«. Marie Tesson, the author of the text, constructed an itinerary, taking as her starting point the building where Stuke and Sieber ended their walk: the Bourse du Travail in Saint-Denis. She wanders through this area that is undergoing transformation until reaching the Tour Pleyel, attracted by the melancholy of its already outdated architecture. more »»
KITAKAGAYA & SUNSHINE CITY
Kitakagaya is a town in Osaka, near the mouth of the Kizu River, along Osaka Bay. The area has a long history as an industrial and fishing hub and is now home to numerous artists. Kitakagaya hosts various small businesses, as well as shipping, recycling or logistics companies. In 2024, artist and musician Hino Koshiro asked us to take photographs in Kitakagaya for a music project titled Uta to Gyaku ni. Uta ni. which he developed in collaboration with Ikeda Shotaro, poet and performance artist. Their work was inspired by the poet Ono Tozaburo and his 1939 poetry collection Osaka. Ono was associated with the anarchist movement and an admirer of Japanese anarchist Osugi Sakae.
Sugamo Prison, constructed in 1895, based on European prison models, gained notoriety by the 1930s for detaining political prisoners, including numerous communists and anarchists like Sakae Osugi. In 1978, the Sunshine 60 Building, which became Japan‘s tallest skyscraper at the time of its completion, was erected on the former prison site. This building is part of Sunshine City, a large complex in East Ikebukuro, Tokyo. Opened in 1978, the complex includes corporate offices, a shopping mall with various restaurants, and attractions such as an observatory
at the top of Sunshine 60, the Ancient Orient Museum, an aquarium, a planetarium, the Prince Hotel, a Namco-operated indoor amusement park, a convention center, and a theater.