Japan’s Controversial Comfort Women Sculpture Is Going On View Again Despite Protests And Intimidation

A controversial survey of works addressing the history of censorship in Japan, titled “After ‘Freedom of Expression?’”, will be restaged in its entirety at a public gallery in Tokyo April 2—5.
The restaging is the latest in a censorship scandal around the survey dating back to its opening at the Aichi Triennale in Nagoya in 2019.
Three days after it opened, the exhibition was shuttered after critics expressed outrage over a sculpture by Korean artist-duo Kim Seo-kyu