The name "Port B" is a reference to Portbou, the Spanish border town where Walter Benjamin committed suicide in his failed bid to escape the Nazis in 1940.

[3] Later productions included Tokyo/Olympics (2007), which took audiences on a seven-hour bus tour of the places prominent in Tokyo's post-war recovery, as symbolized by its Olympic Games.

[6] In recent years Takayama has been presenting his new Port B work as part of the annual Festival/Tokyo, Japan's largest performing arts event.

It was intended partly to create an experience of the private space within the public, against the context of growing numbers of internet cafe "refugees" in Japan.

Presented as part of Festival/Tokyo 2010, The Complete Manual of Evacuation – Tokyo was an interactive theatre project that involved audiences first logging onto a special website.

The project was a specially converted truck that visitors could enter to watch video interviews with hundreds of school children in Fukushima and Tokyo.

Visitors were free to watch whichever and how many interviews they wanted in their own private booth, before "voting" in the fictional referendum themselves by filling out a questionnaire with the same kinds of questions.

The project was intended to galvanize people into direct political and social action, though Takayama expressed disappointment at the passivity of local audiences.

"[13] The project is ongoing and has since collected interviews with school students in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and has also toured to Vienna (Wiener Festwochen 2013) and Berlin (Hebbel am Ufer, 2014).

Audience members then departed alone and walked around the area by themselves, following the route and, at each stop, tuned the radio to the frequency to hear the students' voices reading out a part of the Jelinek text.