Japan Documentary

Yokohama - Gateway to the world (2018x6)

Fecha de emisión: Sept 10, 2018

Welcome to Japan's second largest city, which together with other cities forms an almost continuous "sprawl" with Tokyo - and mostly lies in the shadow of the capital. Yokohama could be the "most important unknown city in Japan". Without a doubt it is the largest, beaten only by Tokyo, with which (and some other cities) together it forms a mega-metropolitan region with about 35 million people. At the end of March, our part-time Japan expert made his way to Yokohama for the first time, apart from passing through Kamakura, Enoshima or Osaka. Yokohama is a port city that did not even exist in the middle of the 19th century. But after Commodore Perry anchored nearby in 1853 with the order to force the Japanese government to open their country, which had been isolated for 220 years (he did not anchor there with a civilian ship, but with two steam cannonboats and two further warships...), a tremendous development began. Actually the Americans wanted to "open" a port closer to Edo - Tokyo -, but this was probably too dangerous for the Shogun, which is why he had Yokohama, located a little southwest, extended. In this documentary, Jörg traces this history - but is also simply interested in beautiful or unusual pictures. Jörg himself judges whether he succeeded.