[KineJapan] Shusenjo ruling and article

[Gerow Aaron]

As many of you know, Miki Dezaki made a documentary film entitled Shusenjo about the so-called "comfort women" issue, which used interviews with right-wing history denialists to analyze and ultimately disprove their arguments. Many know that a number of those right-wingers sued to have the film withdrawn (people posted about it on KineJapan in 2019). As some of you know, the defendants won their case a couple of weeks ago (though those who sued are talking about appealing the ruling). Now the Asahi has published a rather long and detailed account of the case and of the ruling. Most interesting is the description of the point when the quite dry ruling just can't contain itself and has to complain about the lies made by those suing.

The problem is that the rightwingers probably didn't want to win—they just wanted to scare anyone that wants to go against their nationalist and revisionist history that they might get sued if they do.

https://webronza.asahi.com/national/articles/2022021100001.html <https://webronza.asahi.com/national/articles/2022021100001.html>


Aaron Gerow
A. Whitney Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies
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