August 9, 13:03 to decide on a policy to cancel the symposium invited by Daisuke Tsuda

Daisuke Tsuda, Kobe City is acting as an artistic director at the Art Festival after criticism and intimidation of a girl image that symbolizes the comfort women issue at the International Art Festival held in Aichi Prefecture. I understand that I decided to cancel the symposium that invited you.

This symposium was scheduled to be held on the 18th of this month with the theme of “Does art accept foreign objects?” As a project related to art events by Kobe City.

However, in response to a series of critical opinions and threats to the image of a girl who symbolizes the comfort women issue at the international art festival “Aichi Triennale”, where Tsuda serves as an artistic director, Kobe City held a symposium. Decided a policy to cancel.

The city will officially decide to cancel after coordinating with the people concerned.

The executive committee of the symposium in Kobe City has received about 80 protests such as "Do not call Mr. Tsuda" or "Do you want to display a girl image?"

Kobe City says, “If you meet Mr. Tsuda at this time, there is a risk that the discussion will not be in line with the purpose of the symposium, and we are concerned that the art event itself starting this fall could be adversely affected.”

SNS also protests against the event

There are a lot of writings on the SNS about the symposium hosted by Kobe City where Daisuke Tsuda was planning to participate.

Among these, Twitter introduced a symposium on the 7th, 4 days after the cancellation of the “Aichi Triennale” was announced, and then criticized “I ’m going to use public money in Kobe…” did.

On the same day, a local city council member wrote, “Aichi and confidently displayed images and images of comfort women that burned a photo of Emperor Showa. is.
This post has been quoted nearly 9000 and is spread with opinions that are in sync on the SNS.

In addition, there are a number of posts to the organizer of Kobe, such as “Let's call you a protest.

On the other hand, there was an opinion criticizing the same post, such as "Why do you move in the direction of speech blockage?"