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, by Kyodo News, Mainichi Shimbun
Opponents of secrecy law hold rallies, groups issue protest statements
Opponents of the newly enacted state secrets protection law took to the streets in Tokyo on Dec. 7, vowing to abolish the new law.
The day after the controversial bill to prevent leaks of state secrets was passed into law (…)
, by Kyodo News, Mainichi Shimbun
Authors, experts sound alarm over state secrets bill
The bill on the protection of national secrets has moved closer to being passed in the House of Representatives. Though the ruling and opposition parties continue to discuss amendments to the bill, its core remains unchanged. Yet experts (…)
, by Kyodo News, Mainichi Shimbun
Scope of secrets under new bill wider than DPJ’s past proposal
A special secrets protection bill now before the House of Representatives covers a wider scope of secrets than a separate bill that the then ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) contemplated submitting to the Diet in 2011, (…)
, by Kyodo News, Mainichi Shimbun
Protesters stage rally against state secrets bill in front of PM’s office
A large group gathered outside the Prime Minister’s Office on the evening of Nov. 7 to protest the special secrets protection bill now under Diet debate, calling the proposed law a threat to Japanese democratic freedoms. (…)
, by Mainichi Shimbun
Japan’s lower house passes bill to set up U.S.-style NSC
TOKYO (Kyodo) — A government bill to establish a U.S.-style National Security Council in Japan cleared the House of Representatives Thursday in a step Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sees as vital to better respond to the changing security (…)
, by Kyodo News
Japan moves toward adopting tougher penalties for leakers
The Abe administration wants a tougher secrecy law that imposes a prison term of up to 10 years on leakers of “special secrets” concerning foreign and national policy, in line with its plan to create a Japanese version of the U.S. (…)
, by OTAKE Tomoko
If the Liberal Democratic Party succeeds in rewriting the Constitution, it would severely scale back fundamental human rights and strip the public of various civil liberties, a prominent constitutional scholar warns.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, while focusing for now on his economic policies, (…)
, by Mainichi Shimbun
Japan Restoration Party (JRP) draft guidelines for amendments to the Japanese Constitution call for restricting freedom of expression in “certain cases,” among other measures to strengthen controls on Japanese citizens.
“There are certain cases wherein ’freedom of expression’ is to be (…)
, by TAKAHARA Kanako
It was a shocking revelation for a majority of the people in Japan, but maybe not so for major media organizations.
Tsunehisa Katsumata, chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co., admitted in a news conference on March 30 that on the 11th, the day the twin disasters hit the Tohoku region and (…)
, by McLAUGHLAN Alastair
Alastair McLaughlin provides an introduction to Burakumin society and issues of discrimination in historical and contemmporary Japan which moves from an overview of the issues to an excerpt from a novel on Buraku life. (Japan Focus).
“Burakumin maggots...kill eta filth...burakumin have four (…)
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