Withdrawn endorsements for films and art exhibitions are re-igniting a debate in...
TOKYO - Withdrawn endorsements for films and art exhibitions are re-igniting a debate in Japan over self-censorship, exposing a struggle to balance freedom of expression with a cultural penchant for avoiding conflict.
“We made the judgment that the contents of the exhibition did not promote the mutual understanding and friendly relations between Japan and Austria,” Seiichiro Taguchi, director of the foreign ministry’s Central and South Eastern Europe Division, told Reuters. Public broadcaster NHK and other media carried news of the government’s withdrawal of its backing for the Vienna exhibition, igniting a clamor on social media - with many people, including lawmakers, supporting for the decision.
Comfort women were also the subject of documentary film “Shunsenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue”, the screening of which was initially canceled at a film festival last month. The movie also touches on the massacre of ethnic Koreans by mobs after the Great Kanto Earthquake that leveled Tokyo in 1923.
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