Chocolate Piece was a performance work that explored relationships through food, drawing on the historical significance of chocolate bars in the post-1945 Japan-US relationship.

After World War II, American GIs distributed chocolate bars—a rare commodity—to Japanese children on the street. The children shouted "Gimme Chocolate" without fully understanding its meaning. What were they feeling? Did the chocolate fill their stomachs, but not their hearts? And what were the American soldiers feeling as they handed it out?

These questions became the foundation of the work. Using Hershey's and Meiji chocolate bars as materials, I developed seven guidelines for a performance rooted in this story and my own interpretation of it.