TAB Event - "Showa Boogie Woogie 1945-64" Exhibition

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At Kawasaki City Museum
Media: Photography, Other, Film, Art Talk

Shizuko Kasagi’s hit song "Tokyo Boogie Woogie" was released in 1948. Japanese lives were full of hardship, lacking in food and goods in the immediate post-World War II years. “Tokyo Boogie Woogie” symbolized liberalization from these hardships and gave courage and hope over the radio to the Japanese fighting desperately to survive. The 1956 annual economic report released ten years after the end of the war announced that the postwar period was over, and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics gathered an international community in Japan for the first time since the war. That year the Tokyo-Osaka dream super-express bullet train also opened, signaling the true end of the war and the beginning of a new era.

On the other hand, these first twenty years following the war were also an era of massive transformation in Japanese society and lifestyles, with the public taking center stage. New movements were seen in art and culture as well, and pop culture blossomed in the forms of manga, anime and film. The Japanese of the time lived desperately and vigorously, all the while feeling these changes first hand.

This nostalgic exhibition puts the spotlight on Japanese culture and lifestyle during these twenty years. Through posters, photographs, comic strips, film footage and so on, the exhibition aims to bring the viewer closer to the Japanese of that time and to provide the opportunity to reconsider the abundance of "today."

Related events: Lectures, Film Screenings, Talks by the Curator, Promonade Concert
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