Postal card from Japan to Switzerland - translation help

Thanks for your post, Darrin (darkormex )

I will try to work on this more tomorrow, but just a quick (and perhaps interesting) observation is that the card appears to have been addressed to someone in a beer hall (Bierhalle Knopf).  I will tag a couple of members who may be able to respond more quickly than I can on the rest:

salentin
cara
PostmasterGS
scub

Kurrentschrift is largely incomprehensible to me (and the vast majority of non-native and / or non-older German speakers, probably).  Have a look at this letter map, nabbed from the relevant Wikipedia article - note how the "f" looks almost like an "h", and the "I" is like a "T", the "B" is like the "L", and how about the mess in differentiating between the "c", "e", "i", "m", "n", "r", "u", "v", "w" ...



A popular area retirement town and second-home location for the well-to-do around my part of the world is Invermere, BC - imagine what "Invermere" looks like in Kurrentschrift!  ha ha

There are translation firms which will translate German written in Kurrent to German written in something other than Kurrent.  Yeesh.  But it's better than Sütterlin, at least.  I recall reading an article on the Japanese language once in which a hypothesis was set forth that the Chinese-origin characters were kept (as opposed to switching to a Latin-based script) as an intentional form of obscurantism, attempting to keep their culture isolated from those of the Western world after the enforced opening of trade with the West in the mid-19th century.  I often thought that maybe there was something like that going on with these forms of German handwriting ...

Ryan