This film screening event explores the fraught discourse and contemporary representations of the “comfort women,” a euphemism for the sex slaves of the Japanese empire. The event will begin with a screening of “Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue” (2018), a documentary by Miki Dezaki and conclude with a Q&A with the filmmaker.

Miki Dezaki, filmmaker, Youtuber, and Sophia University alumni, tackles one of the most contentious debates in Japan today with his debut feature length documentary on the comfort women issue. A must-see film that helps answer questions such as: Were the comfort women “sexual slaves” or prostitutes? Were they coercively recruited? Were there really 200,000 comfort women? And, does Japan have a legal responsibility to apologize?

Speaker: Miki Dezaki