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BND Japan Archive
2000
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Summary
A cool flyer and logo designed by Ken Munakata helped spread the word. Biggest
event participantwise was in Kyoto, but Tokyo was not to be outdone in wild wackyness.
Osaka let the creativity hang out, while in a mining town in central Kyushu a
one-man crew educated the jammers of the future. Hamatsu is the dark horse winner
though: a great BND carnival, at which love is foundc
Our second year, and Zentas and elves tripled. Most importanly, the network
is up and running. NGOs are getting behind us, and the Zenta meme is spreading.
Kobe, Osaka City and Tohoku to be on next year's BND map! - Gabi Nov.2000
Media coverage
Mainichi Daily News (English language daily)- "Kansai activistst out Buy Nothing
Day", Kansai Time Out "Interview with Zenta Claus" (part in print, part on website),
Kyoto Journal (full-page picture in 2001/1 issue)... no Japanese language coverage
in spite of extensive press releasing. See more at BND
in the news
Participants
600 people in Kyoto area, several hundred in other parts of Japan (thanks to word
of mouth, Sloth society, stickers, website, lecture at Doshisha International
School)
Kyoto Zentas
Event: 3 Zenta Clice (meditating Santas) a peaceful counterpoint to the hurried
Sunday shoppers, elf attendants handing out flyers and urging people not to
shop, or reminding those laden with purchases that what you buy today is trash,
i.e. dioxin tomorrow.
Places: Kyoto Sanjo shopping street- in front of Hankyu department store, at
Kiyamachi exit of Hankyu railway, on Sanjo bridge
Time: 1:15pm- 6 pm
Weather: Sunny, 12-18 degrees C
Info Materials: 1000 Flyers in Japanese with BND logo and detailed info, 3
backpack style billboards, 3 m cloth banner, 1000+ stickers in subways, on vending
machines, in public toilets,....
On the spot activist number: 20
One the spot activist profile: members of Critical Mass and Sloth Society,
students, office workers, ... from Thailand, Taiwan, Austria, Australia, England
(1 each), Japan (15)
Supporters: Ken Munakata (flyer design), Kazuko Noro (banner calligraphy),
Amanda Suutari (Zenta Claus drawing), Michael Wong (webmaster), Midori Suzuki
(web advertizing, billboard making), the Sloth Society (spreading the BND word
through net and word of mouth)
Message on 3m long banner: (In Japanese) "Aren't you buying more than
you need?"
Tokyo Swimming “Suits"
At least a few bikini-clad Japanese will not forget the celebration.... a bunch
of Westerners in suits entered an indoor waterpark, nonchalantly dove into the
pool and distributed laminated BND propaganda, until the guard "encouraged
them" to swifly take their "non-business" to the poolside- where
people were just lining up to find out what it was all about. "The punchline
is that we managed to get in without paying the 4000yen (U$35)" hehehe...
--Cal
Time machine in Osaka Pref.
At Kansai Gaidai Univ., International students put together "a virtual reality
machine that transports you to THE FUTURE OF DEVELOPED COUNTRIES complete with
3-D clearcuts, oil spills, prisons, dead animals, global warming, nuclear war,
acid rain" ... on an adapted date, Dec 2/3.
--Jefferson
Postering Blitz in Tokyo
Culture Jammers Jp Editor TK goes postering.
Homemade Lunchboxes in Fukuoka Pref.
English teacher Paul Reid held a BND teach-in, Tagawa City. "Students caught
on quickly, and made their own skits and presentations in English. Quite a few
had brought home made lunch-boxes so they wouldn't have to buy anything at the
cafeteria."
Future BND couple meets in Hamatsu
“We got great help from Kofu, Yamanashi. We have 6
guys doing the whole show, and several are doing
a part of it. We have a few different flyers, and a big banner and lots of signs.
Costumes, music instruments, c"
-- K
News from the Future: K and Jen met for the first time at the Hamatsu event.
Little do they know at that point that they will get married in July 2004. The
official Buy Nothing Couple! They participate in BND events in Japan every year,
and help to inspire many activists with their lovely parties and radical communications.
They are also key people in setting up indymedia Japan, an online newspaper.
They give their sayonara party in June 2004 and sail east. They are expected
to spend BND 2004 in Mexico.
Other developments: Adbusters/Culture Jammers Jp launched
A small but dedicated group of volunteers in Tokyo introduce BND initiators
Adbusters Magazine, their campaigns and the Culture Jammer's Network to a Japanese
audience. They remain to this day one of the finest sources and inspirations
of this movement in Japan.
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