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June 22, 2023
A Film Screening of Miki Dezaki's "SHUSENJO: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue" July 6, Sophia U.,
From: David H. Slater <dhslater@gmail.com>
Date: 2023/06/22
A Film Screening of Miki Dezaki's "SHUSENJO: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue" on July 6
July 6, 2023, 17:20- 20:30
Room 101, Building 6 Sophia University
In person only
Simultaneous interpretation in English and Japanese
Please register via the following link by July 5th, 9am
https://forms.office.com/r/BCLXhijgB0
This film screening event explores the fraught discourse and contemporary representations of the "comfort women.' a euphemism for he sex slaves of the Japanese empire.
Following the film showing, there will be a Q and A with the filmmaker.
Miki Dezaki, filmmaker, Youtuber, and Sophia University alum, tackles one of the most contentious debates in Japan today with his debut feature-length documentary on the comfort women issue. The film forces us to ask: "Were the comfort women 'sexual slaves" or prostitutes? Were there really 200,000 comfort women? Were they coercively recruited? Does Japan have a legal responsibility to apologize?"
Hosted by the Institute of Global Concern, Sophia University
https://dept.sophia.ac.jp/is/igc/detail.php?n=2023008
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David H. Slater, Ph.D.
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Faculty of Liberal Arts, Graduate Program in Japanese Studies
Sophia University, Tokyo
Approved by ssjmod at 11:46 AM