TOKOYO, Nov 3 — A film festival in suburban Tokyo will show a documentary on the highly controversial issue of Japan’s wartime military brothels, organisers said today after coming under fire for dropping the movie. The film’s screening was cancelled last week after concerns over the safety...
File photo of former ‘comfort women’ and their relatives gathering to stage a standing demonstration near the Diet in Tokyo on June 2, 2014 to demand that Japan formally atone for forcing women into sexual slavery in its wartime military brothels. — AFP pic
The film’s screening was cancelled last week after concerns over the safety of volunteers and objections from local officials. The controversy over the film comes after an exhibit in central Japan was shut down for two months earlier this year after it received threats for displaying a statue of a wartime sex slave, and with relations between Japan and South Korea badly frayed over wartime issues. examines the debate over so-called “comfort women”, who were forced to work in military brothels during World War II.
But some nationalists insist the women were prostitutes, claiming there is no documented evidence that the Japanese military was ordered to recruit women against their will.
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