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Japan Passes Controversial 'Anti-Conspiracy' Bill (privateinternetaccess.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Virtual Privacy Network Blog, News: Earlier today, after an intentionally rushed consideration process, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe passed a new mass surveillance law conveniently called the "anti-conspiracy bill." With the vague wording of the bill, anyone suspected of planning any of [the 277 acts listed in the bill] could be put under targeted surveillance. Of course, the Japanese government has promised not to overstep their boundaries and emphasized that the new law is only meant to increase security before the 2020 Olympics. Among the noted crimes that would be punishable in Japan under the new anti-terrorism law is copyright violation, which is a criminal offense not a civil offense in Japan. Both the Japanese Bar Association and the United Nation's Special Rapporteur have spoken out against the law, saying that it will severely curtail civil liberties in Japan.
BBC laid out some of the most ridiculous things that someone in Japan can now catch a potentially terrorism-related charge for even planning or discussing on social media the acts of: Copying music; Conducting sit-ins to protest against the construction of apartment buildings; Using forged stamps; Competing in a motor boat race without a license; Mushroom picking in conservation forests; Avoiding paying consumption tax. The stated rationale of the government is that these now-illegal acts, such as copying music to CDs or foraging for mushrooms in conservation forests, could be used to fund terrorist activities. Hence, planning or thinking about them is bad. If this sounds like the Thought Police, that's because it is.
BBC laid out some of the most ridiculous things that someone in Japan can now catch a potentially terrorism-related charge for even planning or discussing on social media the acts of: Copying music; Conducting sit-ins to protest against the construction of apartment buildings; Using forged stamps; Competing in a motor boat race without a license; Mushroom picking in conservation forests; Avoiding paying consumption tax. The stated rationale of the government is that these now-illegal acts, such as copying music to CDs or foraging for mushrooms in conservation forests, could be used to fund terrorist activities. Hence, planning or thinking about them is bad. If this sounds like the Thought Police, that's because it is.
You mean "cue". /grammar-pedant
"Queue outrage" is presumably, what happens when people push into a line of patiently-waiting people.
Actually Japan and the USA have reciprocity of copyright law. In theory, if you violate something under their copyright HERE (e.g. copy a work of a Japanese company) you could be prosecuted and tried THERE.
Also look up Korean 'comfort' women. Japan is still either denying that anything was wrong with that, or that it happened.
I am surprised to see your comment getting Score:5
I am from a small Asian country living in Japan for about 15 years.
I have experienced fair amount of bad and good of Japan.
I do not know anything about Germany, but whatever you are saying about Japan is mostly false.
>>Japan is one that hasn't changed enough.
Any sources?
>>They keep moving toward (real) nationalism.
Any sources?
>>Not this "'Merica!" kind, but "change the history books" kind. They would rather forget and hide all the atrocities than accept and learn from them.
Can you give some exact incident which was changed in history book with source?
>>Human experimentation on live subjects? Yes. Belief in superior race? Yes. Death marches? Yes. An nationalistic ideology so strong they had volunteer suicide bombers? Yep. Systematic rape (and murder) of millions of women and children? Yep. Experimentation of biological and chemical weapons on prisoners? Yep.
I guess some of those might be true but you have to give sources of each of them please.
Also please give source where Japan is denying incident for which you can get the source.
What I see is Korea/China spending a lot of money in marketing to world that Japan is evil.
I see Japan apologizing formally and informally many times to neighbor countries, but they are not good at marketing it to world.
Just a quick search will show you the truth like below. Which negates many of your claims.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/11/asia/south-korea-japan-comfort-women/index.html
Right now I am just thinking, wow, how come so many people agree with you.
I guess we all like to stick to a stereotype and easily believe whatever marketing tells us.