Well this evacuation was tricky indeed!
Japanese theatre director, Akira Takayama, spent several years in Germany studying theatre and linguistics. He presented The Complete Manual of Evacuation – Tokyo as part of Tokyo Festival in 2010. The work was recreated by Takayama in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main area in September and October 2014. Evacuate Frankfurt is the first escape and rescue plan for the Rhine-Main Region, which involved more than 30 commuter and streetcar stations, uncovering unfamiliar spots in the region’s urban territory and exploring new meanings to the term ‘evacuation.’ It began with a special event at Mousonturm featuring Akira Takayama, Katsutaka Idogawa, Mayor of Futaba (near Fukushima), post-dramatist Hans-Thies Lehmann who had to take a flight from Frankfurt to Tokyo to participate. Students of Hessische Theaterakademie, Universities Mainz and Frankfurt, HFG Offenbach and Städelschule also took part. This project provides different evacuation experiences on four trips, wherein all participants are ‘evacuees’ and encounter strangers. Tickets downloaded from the website, lead to 40 evacuation points. Participants can decide their paths and detours, can take new paths through encounters and experiences. In the course of four tours, participants are allowed exciting evacuation experiences. By appropriating this ‘evacuation attitude,’ they become performers and spectators at the same time of a tour theatre, where they themselves enact.
Japanese theatre director, Akira Takayama, spent several years in Germany studying theatre and linguistics. He presented The Complete Manual of Evacuation – Tokyo as part of Tokyo Festival in 2010. The work was recreated by Takayama in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main area in September and October 2014. Evacuate Frankfurt is the first escape and rescue plan for the Rhine-Main Region, which involved more than 30 commuter and streetcar stations, uncovering unfamiliar spots in the region’s urban territory and exploring new meanings to the term ‘evacuation.’ It began with a special event at Mousonturm featuring Akira Takayama, Katsutaka Idogawa, Mayor of Futaba (near Fukushima), post-dramatist Hans-Thies Lehmann who had to take a flight from Frankfurt to Tokyo to participate. Students of Hessische Theaterakademie, Universities Mainz and Frankfurt, HFG Offenbach and Städelschule also took part. This project provides different evacuation experiences on four trips, wherein all participants are ‘evacuees’ and encounter strangers. Tickets downloaded from the website, lead to 40 evacuation points. Participants can decide their paths and detours, can take new paths through encounters and experiences. In the course of four tours, participants are allowed exciting evacuation experiences. By appropriating this ‘evacuation attitude,’ they become performers and spectators at the same time of a tour theatre, where they themselves enact.
Interior Lifestyle Living spoils customers for a choice
The first Interior Lifestyle Living took place in 2008, combining International Furniture Fair Tokyo with the concept of Interior Lifestyle Tokyo. It was a leading trade fair for Japanese high-end interior market, designs and products. This fair is a sister fair of Interior Lifestyle Tokyo held in June, based on Messe Frankfurt’s largest international consumer goods fair Ambiente and international textile fair Heimtextil. It’s not known if consumers took a flight from Frankfurt to Tokyo to participate in the trade fair, but it involved a series of fringe programs with numerous highlights such as special exhibitions, interactive workshops and knowledgeable seminars to add extra value. Located at Tokyo Big Sight this fair takes place once a year and is considered the leading trade fair for design-oriented interiors. The exhibition showcases latest trends in interior design and offers new promising innovations and wide range of indoor and outdoor furniture, home furnishings and consumer products. This is an ideal platform for retail chains, wholesalers and retailers, buying and shipping stores and boutiques as well as for interior designers and importers from all around the world. They get comprehensive information on latest developments, services and products in the fields of furniture, home furnishings and lifestyle.
The first Interior Lifestyle Living took place in 2008, combining International Furniture Fair Tokyo with the concept of Interior Lifestyle Tokyo. It was a leading trade fair for Japanese high-end interior market, designs and products. This fair is a sister fair of Interior Lifestyle Tokyo held in June, based on Messe Frankfurt’s largest international consumer goods fair Ambiente and international textile fair Heimtextil. It’s not known if consumers took a flight from Frankfurt to Tokyo to participate in the trade fair, but it involved a series of fringe programs with numerous highlights such as special exhibitions, interactive workshops and knowledgeable seminars to add extra value. Located at Tokyo Big Sight this fair takes place once a year and is considered the leading trade fair for design-oriented interiors. The exhibition showcases latest trends in interior design and offers new promising innovations and wide range of indoor and outdoor furniture, home furnishings and consumer products. This is an ideal platform for retail chains, wholesalers and retailers, buying and shipping stores and boutiques as well as for interior designers and importers from all around the world. They get comprehensive information on latest developments, services and products in the fields of furniture, home furnishings and lifestyle.
Vroom vroom! Who said cars are only made in Germany?
Japan has often been regarded as the automobile hub of Asia with a large number of automobile industries having their headquarters in Tokyo. Similarly, the German city of Frankfurt houses car manufacturers of international repute. The Japanese automative industry is one of the most prominent and largest industries in the world. Japan has been among the top 3 countries with most cars manufactured since 1960s, surpassing Germany. Mitsubishi, Toyota, Honda, Nisaan are some of the big names headquartered in Tokyo. Meanwhile, with a workforce of more than 50,000 employees, Frankfurt has a thriving automobile industry where well-known Korean and Japanese automobile manufacturers have their European headquarters. Even German car makers Opel, Volkswagen etc have invested in Frankfurt to set up facilities churning out some of the best and most expensive cars of the world. Automobile engineers often take a flight from Frankfurt to Tokyo to attend auto trade fairs and share their expertise.
Japan has often been regarded as the automobile hub of Asia with a large number of automobile industries having their headquarters in Tokyo. Similarly, the German city of Frankfurt houses car manufacturers of international repute. The Japanese automative industry is one of the most prominent and largest industries in the world. Japan has been among the top 3 countries with most cars manufactured since 1960s, surpassing Germany. Mitsubishi, Toyota, Honda, Nisaan are some of the big names headquartered in Tokyo. Meanwhile, with a workforce of more than 50,000 employees, Frankfurt has a thriving automobile industry where well-known Korean and Japanese automobile manufacturers have their European headquarters. Even German car makers Opel, Volkswagen etc have invested in Frankfurt to set up facilities churning out some of the best and most expensive cars of the world. Automobile engineers often take a flight from Frankfurt to Tokyo to attend auto trade fairs and share their expertise.
Oh! Honey, it’s all about stocks and money
Headquartered in Tokyo, the Tokyo Stock Exchange is the third largest market in the world by aggregate capitalization of its listed companies. It has more than 2,500 companies on its list in various categories. The main indices tracking Tokyo Stock Exchange are Nikkei and Topix. While Deutsche Borse is headquartered in Frankfurt and is one of the world’s leading exchange organizations providing investors, financial institutions and companies access to global capital markets. It has around 800 listed companies with a combined market capitalization of 1,185 trillion USD. Stock market analysts from all across the globe keep a constant tab on these two stock exchanges. It’s not known if any investor takes a flight from Frankfurt to Tokyo, but undoubtedly they share a common commercial success story.
Headquartered in Tokyo, the Tokyo Stock Exchange is the third largest market in the world by aggregate capitalization of its listed companies. It has more than 2,500 companies on its list in various categories. The main indices tracking Tokyo Stock Exchange are Nikkei and Topix. While Deutsche Borse is headquartered in Frankfurt and is one of the world’s leading exchange organizations providing investors, financial institutions and companies access to global capital markets. It has around 800 listed companies with a combined market capitalization of 1,185 trillion USD. Stock market analysts from all across the globe keep a constant tab on these two stock exchanges. It’s not known if any investor takes a flight from Frankfurt to Tokyo, but undoubtedly they share a common commercial success story.