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Right Side Down: Five-Year Legal Battle Over Freedom of Expression Ends in Defeat for Nagoya Mayor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

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A recent decision by the Supreme Court of Japan has dealt the conservative right another blow in the comfort women issue. In this article, David McNeill places the court's decision to uphold an order forcing the city of Nagoya to pay its promised share of the budget for the 2019 Aichi Triennale — despite the controversial artworks displayed there — in the context of a broader campaign by the right to realign history in accordance with Japanese government objectives.

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