* This article has been edited and reconstructed based on the report submitted to the Kawamura Foundation for the Promotion of Culture and Arts.
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Socially Engaged Art Support Grant
2018 target projectProject Name: NEW TOKYO SCHOOL EXCURSION PROJECT: KURD VERSION/JAPANESE ORPHANS IN CHINA VERSION/FUKUSHIMA VERSION
Applicant: General Incorporated Association Port BThe "New Tokyo Study Trip Project" is guided by refugees with the aim of creating a new model of social engaged art by committing to the refugee problem, which is less of a theme in Japan than the Western art scene. It was planned to update the view of Japanese society and Tokyo through sightseeing tours. The Kurdish edition and the Chinese residual orphan edition dealt with "Great Kanto Earthquake / Tokyo Air Raid" and "Tokyo Trial and Postwar", respectively, and the Fukushima edition dealt with the theme of "Tokyo Olympics".