「小山田が去ってすぎやまこういちがでかいつらをするということを許してはならないのだ」と書いたのだった*1。
さて、すぎやまこういちの問題性は既に英語圏の人にはばれているのだった。東京オリンピック開会式を伝えるDaily Beastの、Jake Adelstein*2 and Chihiro Kai “A Notoriously Hateful Japanese Composer’s Music Just Opened the Tokyo Olympics” *3はすぎやまのことを次のように紹介している；
日本のメディアで、すぎやま問題を取り上げているのは『女性自身』。但し、「歴史修正主義」には言及がない；
At tonight’s opener, the organizers used the music of Koichi Sugiyama, a notoriously homophobic and ultranationalist Japanese composer—despite warnings that it might go over very badly.Sugiyama is a composer best known for his music created for The Dragon Quest game series, but he’s also well-known for his extremist views. He has worked with LGBTQ-bashers like the Liberal Democratic politician Mio Sugita. He’s denied the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese troops in the late 1930s. He has stated that the Korean women who were working as sex slaves to the Japanese empire were actually happy-go-lucky prostitutes. He’s a misogynist who does not believe in the equality of the sexes, and a homophobe who doesn’t believe children should be taught about homosexuality or that LGBTQ people should receive government support as “they don’t produce children.”
He’s also hosted a show on an arch-conservative television network in which he and Sugita shared laughs about the plights of racial and ethnic minorities. Sugita has also ridiculed journalist Shiori Ito, who was allegedly raped by a biographer of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Sugiyama keeps strange company.
Many would argue that you can separate the artist from their art, but in Games that are supposed to celebrate diversity, what sane person would use the music of someone who vocally opposes it? Certainly, his remarks about Japan’s well-documented war crimes are not sowing harmony.
「作曲家がLGBT差別の杉田水脈氏を肯定…開会式のドラクエ起用に疑問続出」https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/754c82b7be69567c8ae3b14eb9be07c7b706f076
*1:https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2021/07/25/004541
*2:See also https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20100705/1278260670 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20130220/1361380789 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20140626/1403716598 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20141120/1416410691 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20150218/1424283180 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20151224/1450925772 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20160813/1471106464 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20160816/1471368314
*3:https://www.thedailybeast.com/music-of-koichi-sugiyama-the-notoriously-hateful-japanese-composer-opens-tokyo-olympics-in-latest-gaffe?source=twitter&via=desktop
