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Panel discussion on Hate Crime in Japan and in the USA with the queer activist group OCCUR
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July 20 (Thursday, holiday)
4:00pm~ screening of Licensed to Kill
5:30pm ~ discussion (30min; free of charge) The discussion will
be conducted in Japanese. Two of our queer documentary
offerings (and one or two of our features) this year address gay
bashing. A panel discussion on the state of hate crimes against the
queer community in Japan will accompany these screenings. The
discussion will cover bashing in Japan, the murders in Shinkiba-koen
(a park on the east side of Tokyo), cultural differences between Japan
and the United States in relation to discrimination.
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