British theatrical company Stan’s Café opened its “Of All the People in All the World - Japan” exhibition at Setagaya Arts Center, the Tokyo Shimbun reported on 16 September.
The Birmingham-based project represents statistics such as the population of countries and cities, and the number of people who are born or who die each day.
The artists use a grain of rice to represent each person. Two tons of rice, equivalent to Japan’s 127 million residents, have been used for the exhibition that also portrays the misery of war by showing the shrinking of Tokyo’s population between 1940 and 1945.
In addition, visitors can see that the number of billionaires and of refugees here are almost the same, and that the number of jobless people is equal to the population of Osaka.
