[KineJapan] More problems for Shusenjo

[John Junkerman]

"Lost its basis for existence." What a truly horrifying expression. When I
heard that, I asked the distributors. Their position is that Sophia's
policy is meant to protect privacy, and that it's a stretch to apply the
withdrawal right to this case.

I second Marcus's opinion that it's good to air the denialist position. In
Shusenjo, they basically crucify themselves, which is probably the real
reason they're going after the film. But the right feels they are generally
not given the chance to state their case, so they should be happy they had
the opportunity.

If you have a chance to see the film, you'll see that Dezaki comes from the
YouTube realm (rather than TV documentary). He did a previous YouTube post
on discrimination in Japan that got serious flaming, and he says this
sparked his interest in exploring this territory.

BTW, Dezaki says the film has had 75,000 admissions in Japan screenings
(and a wide release in Korea). The more it gets attacked, the more it will
be seen.

On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 2:24 AM Bruce Baird via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> 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:
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> M
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 11:52 AM Gerow Aaron via KineJapan <
> 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.”
>>
>> https://www.excite.co.jp/news/article/TokyoSports_1610712
>>
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