Maybe this is not well-known outside of Japan, but Abe-san is forcing a State Secret bill through the house of parliament. Nothing special about the government and its functions being allowed to declare certain information as state secrets. The remarkable thing with the state secret bill in Japan is that there is no clear definition of what type of information that can be a state secret nor is there any clear description of how it will be governed. In addition, whistle blowers risk 10 years in prison and don’t you dare ask for secret information, even if you did not know it was a state secret you asked information about you may end up doing 5 years in prison.
Not only I did protest against this bill today, thousands of others did all over Japan. Including Spiderman and two lovely ladies.
Shady business going on… :/
Yes, Japan is going in the wrong direction under Abe. This state secret bill is just one aspect. He also wants to change the constitution so that Japan not only have a self defence but is allowed to attack too. This could, for instance, with the situation regarding the ownership of an islands affect the relative peace in this region.