Future of canceled "comfort women" exhibit remains uncertain

Many issues need to be resolved if a canceled art exhibition in Nagoya featuring a statue symbolizing the "comfort women" forced to work in wartime Japanese military brothels is to be reopened, the event's artistic director said Monday."It is very difficult in my own position to make a clear statement to the future of the exhibition," Daisuke Tsuda, a journalist who has taken the director's role at the Aichi Triennale 2019, said at a press conference in Tokyo.The exhibition, "After 'Freedom of Expression?'", was pulled on Aug. 3, three days into the 75-day festival, at a time of escalating …READ FULL ARTICLE