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"Showa Boogie Woogie 1945-64" Exhibition
Kawasaki City Museum
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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
*Please visit the museum's website for further details.
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
*Please visit the museum's website for further details.
Schedule | Apr 21 (Sat) 2007-Jun 3 (Sun) 2007 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | General Admission ¥700, students and 65 and above ¥400, free admission for Elementary and Junior High School Students. | ||||||
| Venue | Kawasaki City Museum https://www.kawasaki-museum.jp/  | ||||||
| Location | 1-2 Todoroki, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 211-0052 | ||||||
| Access | From the North exit of Musashi-Kosugi Station on the JR, Tokyu Toyoko or Tokyu Meguro line, take the Kawasaki City bus and get off at Shimin Museum Mae. | ||||||
| Phone | 0447122800 | ||||||
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