Colliding cargo ships and tankers off the Wakayama coastline and new infections in the capitol holding steady around 25,000 offer an overview of current concern. But on Nakano-doru, just north of Shinjuku,
plan-B, the alternative art space that may be the first of its kind in Japan, returns after several years in hibernation. Founded in 1982 by dancer Min Tanaka, the late Kazue Kobata and a group of others, the space “not owned by anyone, but managed by volunteers" has survived by asking one simple question: What is freedom?