<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>In addition to Deputy Prime Minister Aso TarÅ's expressed fondness for Nazi party methods, LDP Secretary-General Ishiba Shigeru recent repeatedly called for control of the press and equated citizens exercising their freedom of speech with terrorism.</div><div><br></div><a href="http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201312130057">http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201312130057</a><div>http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201312120043</div><div>http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20131201p2g00m0dm037000c.html</div><div>http://ajw.asahi.com/article/views/editorial/AJ201312130031</div><div>http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201312010015</div><div><br></div><div>In addition, the government is reportedly conspiring to again bring up an "anticonspiracy" bill that would <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; ">"would criminalize acts of conspiracy regarding more than 600 types of crimes, even if they have not been committed." </span>I don't know which 600 crimes this involves, but last year a college professor was arrested merely for walking through Osaka train station after protesting against contaminated debris incineration on public property. This law could easily be used to attack any anti government demonstration or any act of communication regarding one. Observers of a demonstration could be arrested on their way home.</div><div>http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201312120063</div></body></html>