READ:

Still Hear the Wound: Toward an Asia, Politics, and Art to Come, Edited by Chonghwa Lee & Brett de Bary
Alegal: Illegibility of Okinawan Life, Annmaria Shimabuku
"We are Already Living Together: Race, Collective Struggle, and the Reawakend Nation in Post 3/11 Japan," Vivian Shaw (chapter in Precarious Belongings)
A Cruelty Special to Our Species, Emily Jungmin Yoon (book of poetry)
Comfort Woman, Nora Okja Keller
"Taboos in Japanese Postwar Art; Mutually Assured Decorum," Ashley Rawlings, Asia Art Pacific
Nationalism in Japan, Asia Pacific Journal SPECIAL EDITION, October 2016, Edited by Jeff Kingston

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WATCH
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LISTEN:

Ainu Mosir, (2020), Film available on Netflix
Shusenjo, (2018), Documentary About 'comfort women’
Twenty-Two, (2017 Release in China), Documentary interviewing the last surviving Chinese 'comfort women'
I Can Speak, (2017 Release in South Korea) Film regarding 'comfort women' resolution
Born With It, (2015), Short film on racial discrimination in Japan
Nationalism, Japan, and a Changing Asia, Podcast on Japanese politics and bilateral foreign relations

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Notable Exhibitions

"Gestures in Clothing," exhibition directed by Oh Haji at the Aomori Contemporary Art Center, 2013
"Air," solo exhibition of Koizumi Meiro at MUJIN-TO Production, 2016
"Shapeshifter," solo exhibition of Yamashiro Chikako at White Rainbow, 2018
"Takamatsu Contemporary Art Annual Vol.07," Shitamachi Motoyuki at
Takamatsu Art Museum, 2018
"SAKURA," solo exhibition of Dokuyama Bontaro at LEESAYA, 2020
"Morning Dew," Group show featruing Kum Soni, Takekawa and Yamamoto Hiroki + Takagawa Kazuya, at Kitasenju BUoY, 2020
"Non-Freedom of Expression Exhibition" at Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, 2020

Notable Artworks

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