{"id":1064,"date":"2012-12-02T18:38:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T16:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/supersushiwarriors.visitors-j.com\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2012-12-03T16:31:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T14:31:05","slug":"straight-outta-kamata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/supersushiwarriors.visitors-j.com\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"Straight outta Kamata"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Straight<\/p>\n

Als eine F\u00fcgung des Schicksals muss man es wohl bezeichnen, dass wir in diesem Teil Tokios leben. Erreichbar mit der blauen Linie, s\u00fcdlich des Kanals: Kamata! <\/p>\n

Die ehemalige Yakuza-Hochburg ist ein liebenswerter Ort. Steigt man am Bahnhof aus, f\u00e4llt es einem gar nicht auf. An dem Geb\u00e4ude gegen\u00fcber klettert der Pinguinesel die Wand rauf. Eine kurze, hell beleuchtete Stra\u00dfe mit schiefen Werbetafeln versucht den Eindruck einer pulsierenden Metropole zu erwecken. <\/p>\n

Doch all das interessiert mich nicht mehr, und so passiere ich fast gleichg\u00fcltig die Pachinko-Hallen, aus denen noch bis sp\u00e4t in den Abend dr\u00f6hnender L\u00e4rm dringt. Im 100-Yen-Laden werde ich auf Japanisch gefragt, woher ich urspr\u00fcnglich komme. Ich antworte auf Japanisch und bin mir nicht sicher, ob es am Alkohol liegt oder ob ich tats\u00e4chlich etwas gelernt habe.<\/p>\n

Dann bin ich wieder in meinem Kamata. Stadtidylle im Kleinformat. Am n\u00e4chsten Morgen \u00f6ffne ich die Schiebet\u00fcr unseres Zimmers und h\u00e4nge mein Handtuch raus auf die Leine. Eine alte Frau im Haus gegen\u00fcber \u00f6ffnet ebenfalls die T\u00fcr. Wir schauen uns fragend an. Als dann noch ein Fahrzeug an der Stra\u00dfe h\u00e4lt und eine merkw\u00fcrdig angenehme und zugleich penetrante Stimme irgendetwas \u00fcber Laustsprecher verk\u00fcndet, schlie\u00dfe ich die T\u00fcr wieder und denke nach:<\/p>\n

If I could make it here, I could make it anywhere. That\u2019s what I say at least. My Ghetto Gospel. <\/p>\n

\n

You seem to have no choice but call it a stroke of fate, the fact that we\u2019re living in this part of Tokyo. Accessible with the blue line, south of the canal: Kamata!<\/p>\n

The former yakuza stronghold is a lovely place. When you get off at the station, you don\u2019t realise it right away. At the building vis-\u00e0-vis, the penguindonkey is climbing up the wall. A short, brightly illuminated street with crooked advertising panels tries to create the impression of a vibrant metropolis.<\/p>\n

But all this leaves me cold, and so I’m passing by the pachinko halls almost indifferently, from where you can hear booming noise till the late evening. In the 100-Yen-Shop, someone is asking me in Japanese where I\u2019m originally from. I answer in Japanese and am not sure whether it\u2019s because of the alcohol or whether I have really learned something.<\/p>\n

Then I’m back in my Kamata. City idyll in small format. The next morning I open the sliding door in our room and hang my towel on the line outside. An old woman in the opposite house opens the door as well. We look at each other questioningly. As, in this very moment, a car is stopping at the street and an awkwardly and at the same time obtrusive voice is announcing something, I close the door and think:<\/p>\n

If I could make it here, I could make it anywhere. That\u2019s what I say at least. My Ghetto Gospel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Als eine F\u00fcgung des Schicksals muss man es wohl bezeichnen, dass wir in diesem Teil Tokios leben. Erreichbar mit der blauen Linie, s\u00fcdlich des Kanals: Kamata!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/supersushiwarriors.visitors-j.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/supersushiwarriors.visitors-j.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/supersushiwarriors.visitors-j.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supersushiwarriors.visitors-j.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supersushiwarriors.visitors-j.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/supersushiwarriors.visitors-j.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/supersushiwarriors.visitors-j.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supersushiwarriors.visitors-j.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/supersushiwarriors.visitors-j.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supersushiwarriors.visitors-j.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supersushiwarriors.visitors-j.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}