Boa's promotion of the film "Thomas Ahn Jung-geun" has brought about a sensitive reaction in Japan.
Nikkan Sports, a major Japanese sports paper, in a Friday article entitled, "Boa Does PR in Korea for Movie on Ito Hirobumi's Assassin", said the 17-year-old Boa was doing promotion work for the film "Thomas Ahn Jung-geun", which tells the story of Ahn's assassination of former Japanese statesman Ito Hirobumi in Harbin, China, quoting a Wednesday piece ran on Chosun.com. The film debuts Friday.
The Nikkan said Boa, along with the group Dongbang-shingi held a special preview of the film at Seoul Theater and planned to contribute W50 million (Y5 million) to an association commemorating Ahn. The association receiving the donation is giving Boa a letter of thanks and honorary membership, the paper reported.
The article referred to Ahn as an assassin, and this would suggest that Boa's promotion of the movie and her sizable donation would not be taken well in Japan.
In particular, with Boa at the summit of popularity in Japan and No. 1 on the Orikon Chart, her film production work is receiving even more a
English 
US$5 off (order min. US$5)
