Japanese Court Rules in Favor of Sexual Slavery Photo Exhibit

[Bonobo]

http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/news/news_In_detail.htm?No=91225


A court in Japan ordered a venue be made available for a special photography exhibit of South Koreans who were forced into sexual slavery during the Japanese colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. The ruling came after the exhibit was cancelled due to protests from right-wing activists in Japan.

A regional court in Tokyo ordered camera maker Nikon to provide a gallery for the exhibition, which had been scheduled to be held on June 26th before it was cancelled.

Nikon had initially agreed to hold the exhibition in one of its galleries in Shinjuku, Tokyo, but cancelled the event after right-wing activists threatened to boycott the company’s products, saying the exhibit was too “political.”

Ahn Se-hong, the Korean-Japanese photographer who had coordinated the event, said the court’s ruling was in favor of the freedom of expression and that the exhibit would be held on schedule.

[freshwest]

1. Before a wound can be healed, it must be opened and cleansed. Hope this will help.

[jwirr]

2. These so called righteous right wing pols sicken me. They have all their wonderful "biblical" rules

but whenever a real injustice is revealed by go ape. God forbid that we would actually admit that we are not perfect. And it is interesting that they exist in many cultures.

[Art_from_Ark]

3. It wasn't the right-wing Japanese politicians who were protesting

It was the right-wing *activists*, that is, the people who drive around town in black vans or buses painted with the Imperial Navy flag and blaring out old war songs from their loudspeakers. Their rationale was that the exhibit was an attempt by Nikon, a private company, to engage in "political activism" by providing its exhibition hall for the exhibit, and the presiding judge agreed to an extent, but the judge also ruled that the exhibit could go ahead.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20120622/k10013048691000.html

[dimbear]

4. Japan is under pressure from all the countries it screwed over in the WWII era.

Karma. It's questionable whether we did them any favors hiding what we hid. Not that we were trying to do them any favors.