The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Museum of Ueno 2 segments The close relationship between Germany and Miyako-jima, the main island of Miyako Islands, dates back to a shipwreck in the late 19th century. Back then, a tea-laden German schooner smashed on the coral reefs of the coast of the Japanese outpost on the border to Taiwan. Eight sailors were rescued […]
Location: on the site of Nihon Bisoh 1 segment from Brandenburg Gate Modern office buildings would quickly fade without costly cleaning and maintenance work on the facade. The Japanese company Nihon Bisoh specializes exactly that work and the development and provision of appropriate facades lifts. Exterior walls are the field of activity of the company. For this reason, […]
Location: Toukokuji Tempel 2 segments According to the legend, the sanctuary in the center of Osaka, the temple in the Eastern valley, goes back on Korean immigrants, who settled here in the 7th century. The two segments of the Wall, standing here since 1998, are a donation of two Koreans. Along with it goes their request to […]
Location: Maruho Co. Ltd. 1 segment from Checkpoint Charlie For almost 100 years the Berlin pharmaceutical manufacturer Dr. Kade maintains business contacts with the Japanese pharmaceutical company Maruho. Their CEO Jiro Takagi followed the developments in Germany in 1989 with great anticipation. When the Wall came down, Takagi addressed his German business partner, wanted him to […]
Location: in front of Teguh Ostenrik’s studio 4 segments As an art student in Berlin in the 1970s, the Indonesian artist Teguh Ostenrik, was at night equipped with spray cans at the Wall. Reason enough for him to return years later to witness first hand the fall of the Wall, and to purchase four Wall segments […]