Controversial art exhibit opens in Osaka amid threats

A controversial art exhibition featuring works with purported anti-Japan messages, including a statue symbolizing "comfort women" who worked in wartime military brothels, opened Friday in Osaka under tight security amid repeated threats and protests."Hyogen no Fujiyu-ten Kansai" (Non-Freedom of Expression Exhibition Kansai) to be held through Sunday at a prefectural labor center, displays more than 20 works, also including a film featuring a scene where an image of Emperor Hirohito, the grandfather of the current emperor, is burned to ashes.People opposed to the exhibit continued protesting…READ FULL ARTICLE