A month after camera company Nikon Corp. cancelled a photo exhibit on wartime Korean "comfort women," a judge has ordered the exhibit to open Tuesday as originally planned.

Nikon has appealed the Tokyo District Court decision, but is preparing for the prospect that it won't get injunctive relief before the scheduled opening at 10:30 a.m. The South Korean photographer who assembled the exhibit started taking the 38 photographs at 3 p.m. Monday afternoon to the Shinjuku salon.

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