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6:00 PM-8:00 PM

Sour Strawberries – Japan’s Hidden „Guest Workers”

Film Screening & Talkback session|Utoro Art Festival 2025

  • Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa, Kyoto

  • (Film) Japanese & German with English subtitles
    (Talk) German with consecutive Japanese-German interpretation
  • Free admission, capacity 100, no advance booking required

Sour Strawberries – Japan’s Hidden „Guest Workers” Sour Strawberries – Japan’s Hidden „Guest Workers”

Sour Strawberries – Japan’s Hidden „Guest Workers” Sour Strawberries – Japan’s Hidden „Guest Workers”

Directors: Tilman König / Daniel Kremers
2008 / German -Japanese Production / 60 mins

As part of the Utoro Art Festival 2025, the Japan-Germany co-production documentary ‘Sour Strawberries - Japan’s Hidden „Guest Workers”’ will be shown. Following the screening, Prof. Emerita Dr Steffi Richter, formerly of the East Asian Institute/Japanese Studies at the University of Leipzig, will moderate a discussion with the audience on the problems faced by foreign workers in Japan.

Sour Strawberries – Japan’s Hidden „Guest Workers”
is a documentary by Tilman König and Daniel Kremers on migrant workers, human right, exploitation and discrimination in Japan. It tells the story of two Nikkei-Jin workers from Peru and Bolivia and three Chinese participants of the International Training Programm. It also features interviews with Taro Kono, who served as Vice-Minister of Justice during the third Koizumi Cabinet (2005-2006), Martti Turunen, a Finnish-born Japanese politician, Ippei Torii, former Secretary-General of the National Confederation of Trade Unions, Arudo Debito, Hiroshi Inoue, a former employee of the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren), and the German political scientist and Japan expert Dr. Gabriele Vogt.

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