History on Trial
French Nippon Foundation Sues Scholar for Libel to Protect the Honor of Sasakawa Ryōichi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2132896 |
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| Authors | Mark Selden (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Karoline Postel-Vinay |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 17 |
| Publication date | 2010-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japan focus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1557-4660 • E-ISSN: 1557-4660 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1557466010009708 |
| OpenAlex | W4299489096 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Something unusual happened on 5 March 2009 in the quiet compound of the French school known as Sciences Po, the National Foundation for Political Science, from which most of the past and present French governmental elite graduated. It was the first day of a major conference on "Memory, The Writing of History and Democratization" that assembled political scientists, sociologists, and historians, addressing a vast array of issues related to World War Two, Stalinism and Maoism, and recent African wars. Around one hundred people had gathered in one of the main lecture halls. The first session was ending when a woman from the audience quickly approached the speakers' table. She was not your typical academic conference attendant. A bailiff, she was there to hand one of the speakers a subpoena to appear before the Paris district court at the request of the "French Sasakawa Foundation" (FFJDS). The Foundation, having filed a libel suit against that particular scholar, had chosen this flamboyant way to make the case public
Art · Honor · Internet privacy · Political science · Computer Science · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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