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Koganecho, Yokohama

Posted on 10.28.22 8:37PM under Uncategorized

Note the Chinese characters:　黄金町. Gold Town, but also the old names for Osaka and Osaka Bay. And the first character is the Chinese for my last name, Wong.

At Jack and Betty theater, we went to see “Okagesamade,” a documentary about the lives of 2nd generation Japanese women in Hawaii. Hard lives and sacrifice for their children!

Jack and Betty used to be a porn theater. The “Jack” side maintains that tradition while the “Betty” side shows documentaries and independent films.

Napualikolokelani danced before the showing! Every screening features a dance performance by a Japanese hula halau.

“Koganecho and Hinodecho stations, and you’ll find around 80 bijou artists’ studios interspersed with a handful of hip galleries, bars and eateries. The shops lining these streets were, for decades, part of an illicit red light district, which gave the area a bad name. After the last of the brothels was shut down by police in 2005, art-loving citizens formed a not-for-profit group called Koganecho Area Management Center and proposed to fill the now-deserted buildings with studios and galleries.” (Darren Gore)

We made a day of it in Yokohama and went to Chinatown to eat dinner. Not sure of the occasion but, there was loads of Cosplay in Chinatown. they were posing and shooting in the streets for hours.

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