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Japan legislates against leak of secrets

By Agence France-Presse in Tokyo | China Daily | Updated: 2013-10-26 07:54

Japan's Cabinet on Friday approved a secrecy bill that would stiffen punishments for people who give away state secrets, ignoring claims it will curtail freedom of the press.

The legislation is aimed at plugging Japan's notoriously leaky bureaucracy after years of complaints from chief ally the United States, which has been reluctant to pool information.

It comes amid a worldwide debate over government secrecy in the wake of the Edward Snowden affair. On Thursday, the US ambassador to Germany was summoned after claims Washington was spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel.

New laws are "a pressing issue because sharing intelligence with other countries is only possible on the premise that secrets will be kept," Japan's chief government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told a news conference.

Public servants who give away state secrets could be jailed for up to 10 years. The present maximum is one.

Information related to defense, diplomacy, counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism will all be classified as a state secret, the bill says.

Legislation will be submitted to the parliament later on Friday, Suga said, adding the government wanted the new confidentiality law to be passed by lawmakers "as soon as possible".

Suga said the change was important "for the effective functioning" of a Japanese version of the US National Security Council that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said he wants to establish to integrate information linked to diplomacy and security.

But critics say if enacted, the law will impinge on the transparency of an already opaque government and will be open to abuse. They also fear the law could see reporters jailed for doing their job.

The Japan Federation of Bar Associations, which has led a campaign against the bill, said it was "deplorable" it had been approved by ministers "without sufficient safeguards on the public's rights to know".

Among other complaints, the federation has demanded a clear definition of "state secrets", with a list that is open to inspection by legislators, but the bill "does not fundamentally address these problems" said the federation President Kenji Yamagishi.

The bill says the process of designating state secrets needs to reflect the "opinions of knowledgeable persons," and requires the government to "have significant consideration of the freedom of press as far as it serves the public's right to know".

Reporters' rights to conduct interviews and other newsgathering activities are "rightful services as long as they hold purposes that serve public good and are not recognized as violating laws or using extremely unjust means", it says.

(China Daily 10/26/2013 page8)

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