Osaka Station's "Exclusion Art": Hostile Architecture Comes to Kansai - Unseen Japan
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Osaka Station's "Exclusion Art": Hostile Architecture Comes to Kansai - Unseen Japan
In July 2026, a patch of concrete outside one of Japan’s busiest train stations became the center of a surprisingly heated national debate. The issue? Roughly 150 small concrete blocks embedded into the ground outside JR Osaka Station. To some, they were a textbook example of “exclusion art” (排除アート, haijo āto), Japan’s term for hostile architecture. To others, they were simply a practical solution to a space that had become difficult to manage. …
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