Tinys Yokohama Hinodecho is one of the city’s newest cultural venues. In between the ‘small houses’ under the railway, they have an event space where they hold talk shows and film screenings every week. “A Saturday With Books” is a book fair which has been held every two months, originally in Nihonbashi. YADOKARI, the company that runs Tinys, was initially located in that neighborhood before moving operations to Yokohama. Some of those that run the weekend book stalls have unrelated day jobs. As a hobby they sell used books at various book fairs like this in their free time. Some…
Author: Mana Saito
Located in Japan, but yet not like any place in Japan at all–that’s “NEIGHBOR’S LAND”, the exhibit created by artist Jun Kitazawa in collaboration with residents from different countries and cultures. Kitazawa has worked in Japan and internationally on unique art projects with a consistent theme: “Community Specific”. This led to his selection by Forbes magazine for inclusion in its “30 Under 30 Asia: The Arts” list in 2016. For this exhibit he invited various foreign nationals who live in Yokohama to join as project members, dubbing them “neighbors”. The team met frequently to discuss the development of the exhibit’s…