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Today (May 5) Following the financial market situation, we looked at the government, ruling party and industry responses. As the Japanese government's suppression of the Peace Girl Award finally ended on the third day, the Japanese opposition to the decision to ignore freedom of expression, which is the basis of democracy, is growing. Korean and Japanese writers have decided to file a petition to the Japanese court tomorrow morning asking them to withdraw this decision.

Reporter Chung Sung-jin reported.

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Nakagaki, a writer who has criticized Japanese politicians for visiting the Yasukuni Shrine.

The ban on the exhibition is an unusual censorship, and Japanese conscientious artists say they will fight together.

[Nakagaki Katsuhisa / Painting artist: This is violence. It is not less than violence or less, but before the constitution. Freedom of speech must be guarded.]

Ahn Se-hong's photographs of the comfort women grandmothers were also suspended with the Peace Girl Award.

[Ahn Se-hong / Photographer: I think this is a problem for both the Japanese and Japanese citizens, and I think that you will be able to keep this freedom of expression only through solidarity and let us know each other.]

Citizen petitions demanding the withdrawal of the exhibition suspension exceeded 10,000 people in the first two days.

Kim, Seong-kyung, Kim Un-sung, who made the girl's prize, and Korean-Japanese writers who presented together before the funeral of the expression, decided to apply for a temporary injunction for the withdrawal of the exhibition suspension to the Japanese court tomorrow morning.

Also tomorrow afternoon, we will hold a press conference in front of the Japanese government's one-stop exhibition stop and censorship near the Aichi Prefectural Government building.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism plans to convey to the exhibitors the regrets of stopping the exhibition, saying that freedom of creation and expression should be respected in any case.

(Video coverage: Yang Doo Won, image editing: Yumira)