The new law is part of a campaign by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line conservative, to build a more patriotic and ...
The Japanese Diet on July 17, 2026, adopted a flag desecration law that criminalizes damaging Japan’s national flag, a ...
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Japan enacts law to punish national flag vandals. Opponents say it's a threat to free speech
The law punishes publicly damaging or defacing the national flag, known as "hinomaru". Opponents say the ambiguous law only ...
The ruling coalition does not have the communication channels and coordination mechanisms that facilitate cooperation and ...
Heads bowed, experts offered their respects on Monday ahead of an excavation aimed at recovering the remains of Japanese soldiers from World War II in so ...
A bill to punish desecration of the Japanese national flag is passed by a majority vote in a plenary session of the House of Representatives, while opposition lawmakers' seats, pictured in the ...
A group of nearly 150 Japanese academics said Thursday they had petitioned lawmakers over a bill that criminalizes the act of damaging the national flag, arguing it threatens the right to freedom of ...
The House of Representatives passes a bill to outlaw desecration of the national flag during a plenary session in Tokyo on June 30, 2026. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's House of Representatives on ...
A group of legal scholars in Japan has expressed opposition to a bill now under debate in the Diet to penalize the act of damaging Japan's national flag. They say the bill is ambiguous about what ...
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