[KineJapan] More problems for Shusenjo

[Bruce Baird]

This does raise thorny issues about IRB approval the extent to which the subjects of research should be allowed to dictate the content of that research. Because if Sophia’s IRB approval process is anything at all like the one at my university, it is probably true that Sophia’s own IRB approval process allows people to opt out of being part of a study at any time. Although I would be interested to know if the IRB process says anything about the right to opt out _after_ publication.

Bruce

> On Nov 8, 2019, at 12:14 PM, Markus Nornes via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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> It is deadly ironic that this is perhaps the first documentary to really allow them to lay out their case. Being new to documentary, Dezaki largely followed the convention of tv documentary balance so he did a fairly careful job of describing the positions of both sides. They say he presented his project as balanced and “middle of the road,” and I don’t doubt it.  
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> TV journalism’s ideology of balance also informs the uyoku’s conception of nonfiction (and their own YouTube shows often follow tv wide show formats), so their real problem is that Dezaki shifts gears halfway though, analyzes the right wing arguments, finds them wanting. That is what annoys them. Personally, I was happy to have the chance to hear them explain themselves. 
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> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 11:52 AM Gerow Aaron via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu <mailto:kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>> wrote:
> The rightwing battle against Shusenjo is escalating. Not only is one rightwinger asking for criminal charges to be filed (for copyright infingement), but the rightwingers who appeared in the film are trying to take advantage of Sophia University's research guidelines. According to the article, the eight participants originally signed a "research cooperation agreement" provided by Sophia, which was the process the director Dezaki followed since the film was made when he was still a student at Sophia. Now they plan to file a form withdrawing from that cooperation agreement. The article says that in such cases, by its own rules Sophia is obliged to destroy the results of such research cooperation. The rightwinger Fujioka Nobukatsu says in the article: "By Sophia's own regulations, Shusenjo has lost its basis for existence and become something that should not exist in this world.” 
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> https://www.excite.co.jp/news/article/TokyoSports_1610712 <https://www.excite.co.jp/news/article/TokyoSports_1610712>
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