Mao Ishikawa, “Ms. Yugi Yoshino (26) A graduate student of Ritsumeikan University November 9, 2009, in Kyoto”, from the series Here Is What the Japanese Flag Means to Me, ©Mao Ishikawa.

Yugi is a plaintiff who filed suit for medical malpractice regarding gender identity disorder. “In 2006, I had surgery on my breasts at the Osaka Medical College Hospital, and too much excision caused necrosis. I filed suit, and a reconciliation offer is to be made soon. The reason I straddled the Rising-Sun flag cut in half is that students are divided in two on the peace problem. I painted the scars on my breasts ‘the red of the Rising-Sun flag’. What gruesome drippings! Handcuffs show the terror of ‘the Rising-Sun flag’ and Kimigayo putting people into prison.” (Note: Yugi won the case in March, 2010.)