- DATE & TIME
Wednesday, October 5, 2016 18:15-19:45 - Venue
Room 602, Bldg.#3, Waseda Campus - Presenter
Alexander BUKH（Victoria University of Wellington）
Nils CLAUSS（film maker, Founder of CONTENTED production） - Discussant
SEGAWA Shiro（Journalism Course Program Manager）
NONAKA Akihiro（Journalism Course／Asia Press International） - Coordinator
UMEMORI Naoyuki（ORIS Asia Research Unit） - Language
Japanese
The seminar consisted of the two sessions: introduction and review of the documentary “This island is ours”, and the following discussion among the two directors and the commentators.
Firstly the co-director Dr. Alexander Bukh, the specialist of Russo-Japan Relation and Border Studies, gave a brief explanation of how and why he has engaged in making the documentary film with Mr. Nils Clauss, a professional film maker based in Seoul, on that topic. The short review of the documentary focus on two activists and their daily lives: a Korean man who has been conducting campaign against “Day of Takeshima” set by Shimane prefecture, Japan while helping family-run nursery school and a Japanese woman who is a resident of Shimane and has been engaged in a group activity that claims Japan’s sovereignty over Takeshima while taking care of her family and house.
The first speaker in the discussion time Prof. Nonaka pointed out the absence of the “parties interested” in the screen such as fishermen. Prof. Segawa revealed his impression on the documentary as “un-emotional” in terms of the frame and camera works, while the coordinator prof. Umemori’s,comment shed light on the unseen but implied presence of North Korea behind the scene. Another comment referred to the asymmetricity on the both sides’ arguments: the Japan’s argument that treat Takeshima issue as purely territorial dispute and the Korea’s argument that contain accusation of historical injustice stemmed from the Japan’s imperial era.
