SDHF Newsletter No.357 Request for Enactment of a Law to Prevent Hate Speech “against Japanese people”

Request for Enactment of a Law to Prevent Hate Speech
“against Japanese people”

Proposal to International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

In 2016, “Act on the Promotion of Efforts to Eliminate Unfair Discriminatory Speech and Behavior against Persons Originating from Outside Japan” was enacted in Japan. The act aims to eliminate hate crimes, but it has a serious flaw because it restricts the target for protection only to “persons originating from outside Japan.”

Therefore The Japan Society for History Text Book and International Research Institute of Controversial Histories jointly submitted a proposal to CCPR-International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 136 Sessions scheduled 10 Oct – o4 Nov 2022 requesting CCPR to recommend Japanese government to enact a corrective law to prevent hate speech against Japanese people.

Submission to CCPR: https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CCPR/Shared%20Documents/JPN/INT_CCPR_CSS_JPN_48627_E.pdf

PDF: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/CCPR136e.pdf

MOTEKI Hiromichi, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact