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A photo book by the Japanese photojournalist Kazuma Obara edited by the Swiss photographer Adriano A. Biondo and book designer Lars Müller. Obara's photographs offer touching insights about the consequences of the events surrounding Fukushima following the catastrophe on March 11, and, by adopting a long-term perspective, offer a view that goes beyond the pure facts at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima (Lars Mueller Publisher, ISBN 978-3-03778-292-7, English/Japanese).
Appeared in March 2012 
Lars Müller Publishers
Under the title „meine juden, atombomben und andere arbeiten (my jews, atomic bombs and other works)“, the first exhibition by the Basel-based Swiss artist Miriam Cahn (born in 1949) is held at the Wako Works of Art Gallery in Roppongi, Tokyo. She is one of the most important contemporary Swiss artists. Her work has been included in the collections of the Tate Gallery, London, the Museum of Modern Art of New York and the Kunstmuseum Bonn. In 1982 Miriam Cahn participated in the Documenta 7 and in 1984 she presented her works in the Swiss Pavillion at the Venice Biennial.
March 24 - May 12 Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
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The Swiss biwa player Silvain «Kyokusai» Guignard performs with Noh-actor Yoshihisa Umewaka and the Kotsuzumi-players Atsushi Ueda and Naoko Takahashi under the title «In Dreams we live… An Encounter of Biwa and Noh». This performance is part of Guignard's «Biwa Plus» series and features «Three Secret Pieces», «The Tale of the Lute Genjo», «Tamura», «The Battle of Itsukushima» and other compositions.
May 12 Amagasaki Daikakuji, Hyogo
May 13 Otsu Hiyoshi Taisha, Shiga
May 19/20 Eiunin, Kyoto
Information: Silvain Guignard (Tel/Fax: 077-578-0796, sil@guignard.jp)
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Inspired by the beautiful landscape of Switzerland, Hiroshi Uotani, a Japanese painter with personal ties to Switzerland, shows his latest works painted in a traditional but unique method, featuring Swiss motives.
May 16 - June15 Foyer, Embassy of Switzerland, Tokyo
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With the aim to introduce the present state of architectural education at ETH Zurich to architects and architecture students but also to the broader public in Japan, this exhibition showcases actual drawings and models done by the students of the architect and ETH-professor Peter Märkli. The exhibition is accompanied by workshops and a symposium with Peter Märkli and other well-known architects related to ETH Zurich.
May 11 - June 28 A-quad Gallery, Tokyo
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Teatro Malandro, based in Geneva and one of Switzerland's most popular theatre companies, was invited to perform its latest production at the World Theatre Festival Shizuoka under Mt. Fuji 2012: «L'Éveil du printemps» (Frühlings Erwachen / Spring Awakening; directed by Omar Porras). The play was written by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind in 1891 and was initially frequently banned due to its alleged obscene content.
Today it is considered an enduringly topical satirical/socio-critical masterpiece.
June 30 - July 1 Shizuoka Art Theatre, Shizuoka
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To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Hermann Hesse, one of the most beloved European novelists in Japan, the Fukuyama Museum of Literature, Hiroshima shows an exhibition around Hesse's «Jugendgedenken», one of the most read foreign novels in Japan. The exhibition features, among others, a precious collection of insect
specimens and watercolor paintings by Hermann Hesse.
April 20 - July 8 Fukuyama Museum of Literature, Hiroshima
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This is the first solo exhibition of Jacqueline Oyex (1931-2006) in Japan, a Swiss artist who had lived in Lausanne. She was mainly known for her copper engravings through which she expressed her depressions and troubled personality.
June 15 - July 8 Galerie Miyawaki, Kyoto
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This exhibition features works from the Swiss children book illustrator Hans Fischer (1909-1958). Among others, original paintings from “Pitschi”, “Bremen Town Musicians” and “Puss in Boots”, are shown.
July 14 - August 26 Okuda Genso Sayume Museum, Hiroshima (Japanese only)
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In cooperation with the Verein/Stiftung Ernst Kreidolf and the Museum of Fine Arts, Berne, Switzerland, the Bunkamura Museum of Art presents the first retrospective in Japan of the Swiss painter Ernst Kreidolf (1863-1956). The exhibition shows approximately 220 works, offering a unique opportunity for the Japanese public to discover the fascinating world of an artist, yet unknown in Japan, who contributed highly to the development of book illustrations at the beginning of the 20th century.
June 19 - July 29 The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo
Augst 4 - September 17 Koriyama City Museum of Art, Fukushima
November 10 - December 27 The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
January 30, 2013 - February 24 Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama
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