[KineJapan] Kore-eda, Miyazaki, Takahata, etc. oppose State Secrets Act

[Gregory Johnson]

In addition to Deputy Prime Minister Aso Tarō'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.

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201312130057
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201312120043
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20131201p2g00m0dm037000c.html
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/views/editorial/AJ201312130031
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201312010015

In addition, the government is reportedly conspiring to again bring up  
an "anticonspiracy" bill that would "would criminalize acts of  
conspiracy regarding more than 600 types of crimes, even if they have  
not been committed." 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.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201312120063
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