The spirit of Japan’s new state secrets law may officially be about protecting national security, but lawyers say it could affect a broad range of academic research as well.
A Japanese Internet activist and academic is challenging the recently enacted state secrets law by setting up a website aimed at making it easier for government officials to leak sensitive information to the media without getting caught. The website, unveiled Friday, uses an open ...
The Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office has warned government offices before the new state secrecy law takes effect Wednesday that people who have studied or worked abroad have a higher risk of leaking secrets.
Protesters against the contentious secrecy law enacted exactly a year ago vowed Saturday to continue fighting to have it scrapped, amid concern the legislation will undermine the public’s right to know. With the law that toughens penalties for leakers of state secrets set to ...
Most of the ruling coalition candidates running in the general election are in favor of restarting the nation's idled nuclear reactors, a poll says.
The Abe administration plans to appoint public prosecutors to a review body for the state secrets law, which enters into force Dec. 10, government sources said. The law has drawn criticism from experts who fear it could lead to arbitrary classification of state secrets ...
A recent court-themed musical staged in Tokyo was, to say the least, an audacious dig at the contentious state secrets law scheduled to take effect in December. Set several years after the law’s passage last December, the musical, performed last week in Nakano Ward ...
“Don’t give up the fight! Stand up for your right!” “This is what democracy looks like!” “Now it’s our turn to decide what to do!” Anyone who happened to visit Tokyo’s Shibuya district this past Saturday may have been dumbstruck at the sight of ...
With the state secrets law about to take effect, a fundamental question awaits: When is a “state” secret no longer merely national and starts to infringe upon “local” autonomy?
With less than two months to go until the new designated state secrets law comes into force, how, exactly, it will work in practice is the subject of extensive debate and concern. Much of the commentary focuses on how the fundamental rights of individuals ...
With less than three months to go until the contentious secrecy law takes effect in December, Japan faces the daunting task of finding the right balance between national security and the public’s right to know. The law will toughen the penalties for leaking state ...
The central government has proposed revised guidelines on the designation of state secrets, in a bid to ease criticism that a new law will limit public access to information.
