WEBVTT 00:00.367 --> 00:01.101 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: IN THIS ERA OF 00:01.101 --> 00:02.635 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% "ME TOO," SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL 00:02.635 --> 00:04.137 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ASSAULT HAVE BEEN COMING FORWARD 00:04.137 --> 00:05.705 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WITH THEIR PERSONAL STORIES, 00:05.705 --> 00:07.474 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SOMETIMES FROM DECADES AGO. 00:07.474 --> 00:09.209 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THIS WEEK, P.O.V. PREMIERES THE 00:09.209 --> 00:11.044 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DOCUMENTARY, "THE APOLOGY." 00:11.044 --> 00:12.912 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IT FOLLOWS THE JOURNEY OF THREE 00:12.912 --> 00:14.948 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FORMER "COMFORT WOMEN," WHO, 00:14.948 --> 00:16.549 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% 70 YEARS AGO, WERE FORCED INTO 00:16.549 --> 00:18.284 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SEXUAL SLAVERY, DURING WORLD 00:18.284 --> 00:19.452 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WAR II. 00:19.452 --> 00:21.688 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DECADES AFTER LIVING IN SILENCE, 00:21.688 --> 00:23.957 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THEY TOO CAME FORWARD YEARS AGO, 00:23.957 --> 00:25.525 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SPARKING A "ME TOO" MOVEMENT OF 00:25.525 --> 00:26.793 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THEIR GENERATION. 00:26.793 --> 00:27.727 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TIFFANY HSIUNG IS THE DIRECTOR 00:27.727 --> 00:29.095 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% OF THE P.O.V. DOCUMENTARY, 00:29.095 --> 00:29.529 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% "THE APOLOGY." 00:29.529 --> 00:31.464 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SHE JOINS US NOW. 00:31.464 --> 00:32.766 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THE IDEA OF COMFORT WOMEN-- 00:32.766 --> 00:33.767 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% I MEAN, THAT'S A EUPHEMISM. 00:33.767 --> 00:35.035 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THESE WERE SEX SLAVES. 00:35.035 --> 00:36.202 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% LET'S JUST KIND OF BE UP FRONT 00:36.202 --> 00:37.037 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ABOUT THAT. 00:37.037 --> 00:38.538 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WHAT HAPPENED TO MOST OF THEM? 00:38.538 --> 00:40.106 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HOW MANY WERE THERE? 00:40.106 --> 00:42.776 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> OVER 200,000 YOUNG WOMEN AND 00:42.776 --> 00:44.611 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% GIRLS WERE KIDNAPPED AND COERCED 00:44.611 --> 00:46.079 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% INTO THESE MILITARY SEXUAL 00:46.079 --> 00:47.280 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SLAVERY SYSTEM. 00:47.280 --> 00:48.681 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IT WAS AN INSTITUTIONALIZED 00:48.681 --> 00:50.283 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SYSTEM THAT WAS REALLY, AT THE 00:50.283 --> 00:52.519 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% END OF THE DAY, PROTECTING THE 00:52.519 --> 00:54.387 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SOLDIERS FROM CONTRACTING 00:54.387 --> 00:55.488 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% VENERIAL DISEASES. 00:55.488 --> 00:57.057 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SO, DOCTORS AND NURSES WERE 00:57.057 --> 00:58.191 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BROUGHT IN, NOT TO PROTECT THE 00:58.191 --> 00:59.325 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WOMEN, BUT TO ACTUALLY PROTECT 00:59.325 --> 01:00.727 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THE SOLDIERS, SO THEY CAN 01:00.727 --> 01:02.195 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ACTUALLY CONTINUE TO FIGHT. 01:02.195 --> 01:03.396 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: YOU HAVE THE 01:03.396 --> 01:05.165 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ABILITY TO LOOK INTO THE LIVES 01:05.165 --> 01:06.599 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% OF THREE VERY DIFFERENT WOMEN, 01:06.599 --> 01:07.700 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WHO TELL YOU VERY DIFFERENT 01:07.700 --> 01:09.436 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% STORIES. 01:09.436 --> 01:11.071 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THE CHINESE CHARACTER IN YOUR 01:11.071 --> 01:13.473 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FILM, WHAT HAPPENED TO HER? 01:13.473 --> 01:15.842 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> GRANDMA CHOW HAD SUCH A 01:15.842 --> 01:18.011 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HORRIFIC STORY. 01:18.011 --> 01:19.979 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% NOT ONLY WAS SHE TAKEN FROM HER 01:19.979 --> 01:21.548 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% VILLAGE, ONLY TWO MILES AWAY 01:21.548 --> 01:23.249 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FROM HER HOME, BUT SHE GOT 01:23.249 --> 01:25.118 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IMPREGNATED TWICE WHILE SHE WAS 01:25.118 --> 01:26.519 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TAKEN. 01:26.519 --> 01:28.254 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AND DURING THOSE PREGNANCIES, 01:28.254 --> 01:30.123 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SHE ACTUALLY ABORTED THE BABIES 01:30.123 --> 01:32.559 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HERSELF, BECAUSE SHE KNEW THAT 01:32.559 --> 01:33.793 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SHE COULDN'T BRING THE CHILDREN 01:33.793 --> 01:35.261 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THAT SHE WOULD GIVE BIRTH TO 01:35.261 --> 01:36.729 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BACK TO HER VILLAGE. 01:36.729 --> 01:37.697 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AND SO, THAT HAPPENED TO HER 01:37.697 --> 01:38.798 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TWICE WHILE SHE WAS AT THE 01:38.798 --> 01:40.533 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% COMFORT STATION, AND BY THE TIME 01:40.533 --> 01:42.302 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SHE HAD RETURNED BACK HOME, SHE 01:42.302 --> 01:43.736 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WAS UNABLE TO CONCEIVE A CHILD 01:43.736 --> 01:44.971 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% EVER AGAIN. 01:44.971 --> 01:45.839 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: AND YOU ARE 01:45.839 --> 01:46.706 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ABLE TO DOCUMENT THE 01:46.706 --> 01:47.707 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CONVERSATIONS THAT WERE 01:47.707 --> 01:49.209 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HAPPENING WITH HER FAMILY. 01:49.209 --> 01:50.076 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> WHILE WE WERE MAKING THE 01:50.076 --> 01:52.278 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FILM, IT WAS TO MY SURPRISE THAT 01:52.278 --> 01:53.680 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HER ADOPTED CHILDREN-- HER 01:53.680 --> 01:55.181 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DAUGHTER, THAT SHE LIVES VERY 01:55.181 --> 01:57.450 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CLOSE TO-- DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING 01:57.450 --> 01:58.618 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ABOUT THIS. 01:58.618 --> 01:59.953 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AND SO, REALLY, THE POINT OF 01:59.953 --> 02:01.421 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MAKING "THE APOLOGY" WAS TO 02:01.421 --> 02:02.822 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITIES OF 02:02.822 --> 02:04.324 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% EVEN TELLING THESE HORRIFIC 02:04.324 --> 02:05.758 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% STORIES TO THE PEOPLE CLOSEST TO 02:05.758 --> 02:06.893 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% YOU, TO THE PEOPLE THAT YOU 02:06.893 --> 02:08.061 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% LOVE. 02:08.061 --> 02:09.195 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AND I THINK FOR TODAY, WE NEED 02:09.195 --> 02:10.029 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TO UNDERSTAND THOSE 02:10.029 --> 02:11.798 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% COMPLEXITIES, TO UNDERSTAND WHY 02:11.798 --> 02:14.200 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IT TAKES SO LONG TO HAVE THAT 02:14.200 --> 02:15.502 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% COURAGE, TO BE ABLE TO SHARE 02:15.502 --> 02:17.270 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% STORIES PUBLICLY, EVEN. 02:17.270 --> 02:18.204 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: AND THERE'S A 02:18.204 --> 02:19.405 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WOMAN FROM THE PHILIPPINES THAT 02:19.405 --> 02:20.807 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% YOU PROFILE. 02:20.807 --> 02:21.708 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SHE'S CARRYING THE GUILT OF ALL 02:21.708 --> 02:23.810 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THIS FOR NOT REVEALING THIS TO 02:23.810 --> 02:25.445 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HER NOW-DEAD HUSBAND. 02:25.445 --> 02:27.080 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> SHE WAITED TILL HER HUSBAND 02:27.080 --> 02:28.548 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% PASSED AWAY, FOR ALL HER 02:28.548 --> 02:30.650 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CHILDREN TO LEAVE HER NEST, FOR 02:30.650 --> 02:32.085 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HER TO EVEN JOIN A GROUP OF 02:32.085 --> 02:33.253 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SURVIVORS. 02:33.253 --> 02:34.888 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% YOU KNOW, SHE WAS ALWAYS SCARED 02:34.888 --> 02:35.855 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THAT THIS WOULD BREAK HER 02:35.855 --> 02:36.689 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FAMILY. 02:36.689 --> 02:37.357 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% OUT OF ALL THE THREE 02:37.357 --> 02:38.424 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% GRANDMOTHERS THAT WE FIMMED, SHE 02:38.424 --> 02:39.792 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WAS ONE THAT WAS ABLE TO GET 02:39.792 --> 02:41.094 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MARRIED, WAS ABLE TO BIRTH HER 02:41.094 --> 02:42.262 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% OWN CHILDREN, TO HAVE THIS 02:42.262 --> 02:43.396 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FAMILY. 02:43.396 --> 02:44.764 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AND SO, IN MANY WAYS, YOU CAN 02:44.764 --> 02:46.799 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THINK THAT SHE HAD SO MUCH TO 02:46.799 --> 02:48.868 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% LOSE IF SHE HAD COME OUT WHILE 02:48.868 --> 02:50.703 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HER HUSBAND WAS ALIVE, WHILE HER 02:50.703 --> 02:51.738 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CHILDREN WERE STILL LIVING WITH 02:51.738 --> 02:53.139 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HER. 02:53.139 --> 02:55.241 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> WILL YOU EVER TELL YOUR 02:55.241 --> 02:58.044 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CHILDREN? 02:58.044 --> 02:59.445 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> NEVER. 02:59.445 --> 03:03.683 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% I AM NEVER TELLING ANYONE. 03:03.683 --> 03:05.652 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THEY WOULD BE ASHAMED OF ME. 03:05.652 --> 03:06.452 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THEY WOULD BE ASHAMED OF ME, I 03:06.452 --> 03:07.554 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% KNOW. 03:07.554 --> 03:09.756 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THEY WILL, YES. 03:09.756 --> 03:11.624 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> SO, THAT WEIGHT OF, YOU KNOW, 03:11.624 --> 03:13.493 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SHAME AND STIGMA ON HER SHOULDER 03:13.493 --> 03:15.395 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CARRIED OVER AND OVER AND OVER 03:15.395 --> 03:16.729 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ALL THESE YEARS, TILL SHE WAS 03:16.729 --> 03:18.064 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% 80 YEARS OLD. 03:18.064 --> 03:20.300 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AND WHEN SHE REVEALED TO ME THAT 03:20.300 --> 03:22.502 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SHE, YOU KNOW, SHE WANTED TO ONE 03:22.502 --> 03:24.470 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DAY-- HER WISH WAS TO ONE DAY 03:24.470 --> 03:25.371 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TELL HER CHILDREN. 03:25.371 --> 03:26.272 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: WHERE DOES THE 03:26.272 --> 03:27.874 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FILM GO FROM HERE, NOW THAT IT'S 03:27.874 --> 03:29.342 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BEING SCREENED ON PBS? 03:29.342 --> 03:30.243 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IT HAS BEEN RUNNING FOR A COUPLE 03:30.243 --> 03:31.244 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% OF YEARS, WITH SCREENINGS AROUND 03:31.244 --> 03:32.045 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THE COUNTRY. 03:32.045 --> 03:32.745 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WHAT DO YOU DO WITH IT? 03:32.745 --> 03:33.746 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WHAT DO YOU HOPE WITH IT? 03:33.746 --> 03:35.081 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> I MEAN, I'M HOPING THAT WITH 03:35.081 --> 03:36.282 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THE RISE OF THE "ME TOO" 03:36.282 --> 03:38.151 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MOVEMENT AND TIME'S UP MOVEMENT, 03:38.151 --> 03:40.620 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THAT WE AS A COLLECTIVE 03:40.620 --> 03:42.222 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% COMMUNITY AND GLOBAL COMMUNITY 03:42.222 --> 03:43.790 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CAN SEE THAT WE CAN'T IGNORE 03:43.790 --> 03:46.059 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% PAST ISSUES AND PAST ATROCITIES, 03:46.059 --> 03:47.727 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THAT IF WE JUST LET THIS GO, 03:47.727 --> 03:50.763 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IF WE DON'T ADDRESS THIS, THAT, 03:50.763 --> 03:54.067 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% YOU KNOW, IT JUST SHOWS, YOU 03:54.067 --> 03:55.535 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% KNOW, HOW WOMEN ARE VIEWED IN 03:55.535 --> 03:57.370 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SOCIETY STILL TODAY. 03:57.370 --> 03:59.439 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AND THAT'S WHY, IF WE CAN'T 03:59.439 --> 04:00.773 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% RECOGNIZE THIS, HISTORY WILL 04:00.773 --> 04:01.741 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% REPEAT ITSELF. 04:01.741 --> 04:03.109 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AND THE GRANDMOTHERS FIGHT TODAY 04:03.109 --> 04:05.178 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% NOT JUST FOR THE JUSTICE THEY 04:05.178 --> 04:06.045 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HAVE BEEN SEEKING FOR, BUT ALSO 04:06.045 --> 04:07.780 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FOR THE NEXT GENERATION. 04:07.780 --> 04:09.649 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SO REALLY, IT'S OUR COLLECTIVE 04:09.649 --> 04:11.217 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% RESPONSIBILITY TO UNITE 04:11.217 --> 04:12.218 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TOGETHER, TO FIGHT WITH THEM. 04:12.218 --> 04:12.952 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: I WANT TO ALSO 04:12.952 --> 04:16.256 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ASK, YOU'VE BECOME AN HONORARY 04:16.256 --> 04:17.590 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% GRANDDAUGHTER TO MANY OF THESE 04:17.590 --> 04:19.025 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WOMEN, AND YOU ALSO HAVE KIND OF 04:19.025 --> 04:20.326 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% A PERSONAL JOURNEY WHILE YOU'RE 04:20.326 --> 04:22.428 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MAKING THIS, OVER A SIX-YEAR 04:22.428 --> 04:23.730 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% PERIOD. 04:23.730 --> 04:25.098 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% YOU WERE A SURVIVOR OF SEXUAL 04:25.098 --> 04:26.966 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ASSAULT WHEN YOU WERE A CHILD? 04:26.966 --> 04:28.768 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WATCHING THESE WOMEN, AND WHAT 04:28.768 --> 04:30.837 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THEY'VE LIVED THROUGH, WHAT DID 04:30.837 --> 04:34.507 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IT TEACH YOU? 04:34.507 --> 04:36.876 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> THESE GRANDMOTHERS TAUGHT ME 04:36.876 --> 04:38.745 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SO MUCH ABOUT WHAT RESILIENCE 04:38.745 --> 04:40.480 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% LOOKS LIKE, WHAT COURAGE LOOKS 04:40.480 --> 04:45.051 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% LIKE, PERSEVERANCE, SACRIFICE. 04:45.051 --> 04:47.053 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TO TRULY UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, 04:47.053 --> 04:48.521 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THE WEIGHT OF WHAT SHAME LOOKS 04:48.521 --> 04:50.657 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% LIKE ON AN 80-YEAR-OLD WOMAN, 04:50.657 --> 04:53.293 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AND TO SEE THEM OVERCOME THAT 04:53.293 --> 04:54.260 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HAS BROUGHT ME SO MUCH 04:54.260 --> 04:55.995 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% INSPIRATION THAT I NEVER THOUGHT 04:55.995 --> 04:57.163 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WOULD HAPPEN WHILE MAKING THIS 04:57.163 --> 04:58.531 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FILM. 04:58.531 --> 04:59.666 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT 04:59.666 --> 05:01.534 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IT WOULD JUST BE ME HELPING TO 05:01.534 --> 05:03.970 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SHARE THEIR STORIES, BUT REALLY, 05:03.970 --> 05:05.338 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THEY'VE HELPED ME. 05:05.338 --> 05:06.606 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THEY'VE HELPED ME COME TO TERMS 05:06.606 --> 05:07.774 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WITH A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT I 05:07.774 --> 05:10.076 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HAD GONE THROUGH, AND MY HOPE IS 05:10.076 --> 05:11.644 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THAT THIS FILM ALSO HELPS MANY 05:11.644 --> 05:13.780 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% OTHER PEOPLE AS WELL, MANY OTHER 05:13.780 --> 05:15.415 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WOMEN AND PEOPLE THAT HAVE A 05:15.415 --> 05:16.883 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% STORY THAT THEY WANT TO SHARE, 05:16.883 --> 05:18.685 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THAT THEY TOO ARE LOOKING FOR 05:18.685 --> 05:20.353 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THAT COURAGE AND INSPIRATION TO 05:20.353 --> 05:21.821 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ALSO SHARE THEIR STORIES. 05:21.821 --> 05:23.389 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SO, I HOPE THAT THAT ALSO 05:23.389 --> 05:24.891 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% RESONATES WITH MANY PEOPLE 05:24.891 --> 05:26.292 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AROUND THE WORLD AS WELL. 05:26.292 --> 05:27.560 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: THERE'S A PLACE 05:27.560 --> 05:28.561 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WHERE THEY HAVE WEEKLY 05:28.561 --> 05:29.862 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DEMONSTRATIONS OUTSIDE THE 05:29.862 --> 05:31.564 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% JAPANESE EMBASSY ABOUT THIS. 05:31.564 --> 05:32.699 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THERE'S ACTUALLY A STATUE 05:32.699 --> 05:36.769 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% COMMEMORATING THIS. 05:34.033 --> 06:23.449 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT A CLIP. 06:23.449 --> 06:24.150 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: WHEN YOU LOOK 06:24.150 --> 06:25.752 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ACROSS THAT SEA OF PROTESTORS, 06:25.752 --> 06:27.553 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU EXPECT THE 06:27.553 --> 06:28.621 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% YOUNG RABBLE ROUSERS TO BE. 06:28.621 --> 06:30.256 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THESE ARE ACTUAL GRANDMAS THAT 06:30.256 --> 06:31.791 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HAVE SURVIVED THIS, AND THEY'RE 06:31.791 --> 06:34.394 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% COMING ON A WEEKLY BASIS TO KEEP 06:34.394 --> 06:35.762 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% PRESSING THIS ISSUE. 06:35.762 --> 06:36.929 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> EVERY WEDNESDAY, RAIN OR 06:36.929 --> 06:39.198 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SHINE, SINCE 1992, THEY HAVE 06:39.198 --> 06:41.334 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BEEN DEMONSTRATING OUTSIDE THE 06:41.334 --> 06:42.568 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% JAPANESE EMBASSY IN SEOUL, 06:42.568 --> 06:43.870 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% KOREA. 06:43.870 --> 06:45.405 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AND TO SEE THAT FOOTAGE AGAIN, I 06:45.405 --> 06:47.807 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MEAN, IT WAS SUCH A POWERFUL 06:47.807 --> 06:50.176 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DAY, BUT WHEN WE WERE TALKING TO 06:50.176 --> 06:52.378 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% GRANDMA GILL PRIOR TO THE 06:52.378 --> 06:54.380 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DEMONSTRATION, I SAID-- I ASKED 06:54.380 --> 06:55.481 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HER HOW SHE FELT. 06:55.481 --> 06:58.384 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AND SHE SAID, SADNESS. 06:58.384 --> 06:59.819 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SADNESS THAT, BACK THEN WHEN WE 06:59.819 --> 07:03.022 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FILMED THAT, IT WAS A 1,000th. 07:03.022 --> 07:06.959 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% LIKE, WHY HAS IT TAKEN 1,000th 07:06.959 --> 07:09.829 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DEMONSTRATION, AND WE'RE STILL 07:09.829 --> 07:10.797 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% GOING ON. 07:10.797 --> 07:12.632 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AND IT'S STILL HAPPENING TODAY. 07:12.632 --> 07:13.599 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WE'RE STILL DEMONSTRATING. 07:13.599 --> 07:14.367 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: WHAT IS THE SORT 07:14.367 --> 07:15.868 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% OF CURRENT STATUS OF RELATIONS 07:15.868 --> 07:17.003 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BETWEEN JAPAN AND ALL THESE 07:17.003 --> 07:17.870 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DIFFERENT COUNTRIES? 07:17.870 --> 07:19.205 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IN 2015, THERE WAS KIND OF A 07:19.205 --> 07:21.073 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BILLION-YEN SETTLEMENT, THAT 07:21.073 --> 07:22.341 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THEY THOUGHT WOULD TRY TO MOVE 07:22.341 --> 07:23.976 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THINGS FORWARD, BUT JUST THIS, 07:23.976 --> 07:25.478 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% YOU KNOW, VERY-- JUST A FEW 07:25.478 --> 07:27.013 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WEEKS AGO, YOU'VE GOT THE CITY 07:27.013 --> 07:28.848 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% OF OSAKA CUTTING TIES WITH THE 07:28.848 --> 07:30.016 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CITY OF SAN FRANSISCO, THEIR 07:30.016 --> 07:31.417 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SISTER CITIES RELATIONSHIP, 07:31.417 --> 07:32.618 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BECAUSE OF ONE OF THESE STATUES 07:32.618 --> 07:34.220 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ON THE WEST COAST. 07:34.220 --> 07:35.421 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW, AS MORE 07:35.421 --> 07:37.490 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% PEOPLE ARE UNDERSTANDING THE 07:37.490 --> 07:40.226 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HISTORY AND THE ISSUES, WITH THE 07:40.226 --> 07:41.394 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% GRANDMOTHERS STILL, STILL 07:41.394 --> 07:43.329 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FIGHTING FOR AN APOLOGY, EVEN 07:43.329 --> 07:46.199 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AFTER THE 2015 AGREEMENT BETWEEN 07:46.199 --> 07:48.734 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THE TWO GOVERNMENTS-- 07:48.734 --> 07:50.470 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% YOU KNOW, MORE COUNTRIES ARE 07:50.470 --> 07:51.671 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SUPPORTING WITH THE BRONZE 07:51.671 --> 07:53.172 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% STATUE, ERECTING IT INTO THEIR 07:53.172 --> 07:54.807 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% OWN CITIES EVERYWHERE. 07:54.807 --> 07:56.876 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HOWEVER, BECAUSE THEY'RE DOING 07:56.876 --> 07:58.778 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THAT, THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT 07:58.778 --> 07:59.846 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% STILL DOESN'T WANT TO 07:59.846 --> 08:01.547 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ACKNOWLEDGE, IN FACT, WANTS TO 08:01.547 --> 08:03.649 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% REMOVE THESE STATUES, AND NOT 08:03.649 --> 08:04.717 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TAKE THE OWNERSHIP AND 08:04.717 --> 08:06.219 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% RESPONSIBILITY OF HOW THEY 08:06.219 --> 08:07.587 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, DROVE THE 08:07.587 --> 08:08.788 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HELM BEHIND THIS 08:08.788 --> 08:10.156 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% INSTITUTIONALIZED SEXUAL SLAVERY 08:10.156 --> 08:11.457 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SYSTEM. 08:11.457 --> 08:12.625 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AND SO, THAT STILL GOES ON 08:12.625 --> 08:13.893 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TODAY, THAT'S STILL HAPPENING 08:13.893 --> 08:15.828 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TODAY, UNFORTUNATELY, BUT, YOU 08:15.828 --> 08:17.029 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% KNOW, WITH MOVEMENTS LIKE THE 08:17.029 --> 08:18.197 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% METOO CAMPAIGN AND, LIKE, 08:18.197 --> 08:19.732 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING 08:19.732 --> 08:21.467 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% GLOBALLY, I THINK THAT MORE AND 08:21.467 --> 08:22.969 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MORE PEOPLE ARE STANDING BEHIND 08:22.969 --> 08:24.337 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THIS MOVEMENT, AND STANDING 08:24.337 --> 08:26.572 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BEHIND THESE STATUES AND MAKING 08:26.572 --> 08:27.874 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SURE THAT THEY AREN'T REMOVED, 08:27.874 --> 08:28.741 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BECAUSE IT REALLY IS 08:28.741 --> 08:30.510 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SYMBOLIZING, YOU KNOW, HOW WOMEN 08:30.510 --> 08:32.512 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ARE VIEWED IN SOCIETY TODAY. 08:32.512 --> 08:33.446 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% YOU KNOW, IT'S VERY MUCH A 08:33.446 --> 08:34.580 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% GLOBAL ISSUE. 08:34.580 --> 08:35.448 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: HOW MUCH OF A 08:35.448 --> 08:37.016 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DIFFERENCE WAS THE COMPOSITION 08:37.016 --> 08:38.551 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% OF THE STAFF-- AT LEAST THE 08:38.551 --> 08:40.052 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% GENDER OF THE STAFF, IN MAKING 08:40.052 --> 08:42.021 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THIS FILM, AND THE FINAL PRODUCT 08:42.021 --> 08:43.189 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THAT WE HAVE? 08:43.189 --> 08:43.856 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> IT'S HUGE. 08:43.856 --> 08:45.791 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% "THE APOLOGY" WAS MADE WITH THE 08:45.791 --> 08:47.460 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA, 08:47.460 --> 08:49.729 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WITH INCREDIBLE PRODUCTION TEAM, 08:49.729 --> 08:51.063 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% OUR PRODUCER, ANITA LEE, OUR 08:51.063 --> 08:52.865 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% EDITOR, MARY STEPHEN, COMPOSER 08:52.865 --> 08:54.534 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% LESLEY BARBER. 08:54.534 --> 08:56.168 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% A MAJORITY OF THE STAFF ARE 08:56.168 --> 08:57.336 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% INCREDIBLE, PIONEERING, FEMALE 08:57.336 --> 08:58.704 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FILMMAKERS THEMSELVES. 08:58.704 --> 09:01.474 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AND TO HAVE THAT FEMALE LENS, TO 09:01.474 --> 09:03.609 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BE ABLE TO CAPTURE THE NUANCES 09:03.609 --> 09:05.444 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AND THE AFTERMATH OF WHAT THESE 09:05.444 --> 09:07.413 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WOMEN HAD GONE THROUGH AND WHAT 09:07.413 --> 09:09.015 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THEIR DYNAMICS ARE WITH THE 09:09.015 --> 09:10.316 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FAMILY, IS SO IMPORTANT FOR 09:10.316 --> 09:12.285 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND, TO CONNECT 09:12.285 --> 09:13.786 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WITH THE GRANDMOTHER'S STORIES, 09:13.786 --> 09:15.821 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TO CONNECT WITH THESE ISSUES. 09:15.821 --> 09:16.856 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AND, AND TO NOT ISOLATE THIS 09:16.856 --> 09:18.691 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ISSUE AS AN "ASIAN ISSUE," AS A 09:18.691 --> 09:21.160 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HISTORICAL ISSUE, TO TRULY 09:21.160 --> 09:23.162 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CONNECT WITH THEM AS PEOPLE 09:23.162 --> 09:24.597 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FIRST. 09:24.597 --> 09:25.364 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: THE DOCUMENTARY 09:25.364 --> 09:26.065 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IS CALLED "THE APOLOGY." 09:26.065 --> 09:26.966 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TIFFANY HSIUNG, THANKS SO MUCH 09:26.966 --> 09:27.633 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FOR JOINING US. 09:27.633 --> 09:31.633 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> THANK YOU.