Japan Documentary

Osaka by day (2018x4)

Fecha de emisión: Ago 16, 2018

The former Naniwa is a port city, a metropolis and an alternative to Tokyo: people talk differently, eat differently and stand on the other side of the escalator. Welcome to Osaka! Osaka used to be the "capital of Japan" (although Japan wasn't always a united country...) and is still Tokyo's big competitor today. With a population of 2.7 million, it is only the third largest metropolis in the country, after Yokohama. But the latter, together with Tokyo and other cities, forms the gigantic metropolitan region of Tokyo with about 34 million people. Tokyo is located in the eastern Kanto region, while Osaka is the economic centre of the Kansai region - including Kyoto and other nearby cities, the metropolitan region has a good 17 million inhabitants. Tokyo vs. Osaka, Kanto vs. Kansai, this is a little comparable to the (not necessarily always serious) competition between Hamburg and Munich or North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria - because there are cultural differences. Tokyoers are considered particularly ambitious, but also selfish, the people and Osaka as cheerful and louder and also willing to break the rules. In the fourth episode of Japan-Dokus 2018, Osaka am Tag, Jörg Langer explores the big city and tries to track down some of these cultural and culinary differences - as far as they are recognizable for Westerners without studying Japanology. Asuka, who comes from Osaka, helps him with this. In the complementary video Osaka at Night it is not least a question of proving that Osaka has nothing to fear from comparison with Tokyo when it comes to the "sea of lights".