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Freedom of Hate Speech; Abe Shinzo and Japan's Public Sphere

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Tessa Morris-Suzuki
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Japan's diplomacy must always be rooted in democracy, the rule of law, and respect for human rights. These universal values have guided Japan's post-war development. I firmly believe that, in 2013 and beyond, the Asia- Pacific region's future prosperity should rest on them as well. (Abe Shinzo, Prime Minister of Japan, proclaiming Japan “Asia's Democratic Security Diamond”, 27 December 2012)

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 8 , February 2013 , e1
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References

Notes

1 Shinzo Abe, “Asia's Democratic Security Diamond”, Project Syndicate, 27 December 2012, (accessed 15 January 2013)

2 See, for example, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Morris Low, Leonid Petrov and Timothy Y. Tsu, East Asia Beyond the History Wars: Confronting the Ghosts of Violence, London, Routledge, 2013, particularly ch. 4.

3 See the VAWW-Net website (accessed 18 February 2013).

4 Quoted in Norma Field, “The Courts, Japan's Military Comfort Women, and the Conscience of Humanity: The Ruling in VAWW-Net Japan vs. NHK”, The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 10 February 2007 (accessed 18 February 2013). Although VAWW-Net won a suit for damages against NHK and another company involved in making the censored program in the Tokyo High Court, this was later overturned by the Supreme Court.

5 Tribal Media House KK and Cross Marketing KK eds., Sosharu Media Hakushi 2012, Tokyo Shoeisha, 2012.

6 On the Zaitokukai, see Alexis Dudden, “Memories and Aporias in the Japan Korean Relationship”, The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 5 April 2010 (accessed 20 January 2013).

7 See Tessa Morris-Suzuki, “Out with Human Rights, In with Government Authored History”, Asiarights, August 2012.

8 See here, post dated 22 December 2012 (accessed 15 January 2013).

9 See here, comment by Abe Shinzo, 21.59, 22 December 2012 (accessed 15 January 2013).

10 See here (accessed 20 January 2013).

11 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, see the Website of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, (accessed 18 February 2013).

12 See the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan, (accessed 19 February 2013).

13 Ibid.

14 See the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan, (accessed 19 February 2013).

15 For details of this case, see the “Fukushima Voice” website, (accessed 19 February 2013) and the website “Hoshano Kakusan ni Hantai suru Shimin o Shien suru Kai”, (accessed 19 February 2013).

16 See the website of the “Nihongun ‘Ianfu’ Mondai Kansai Nettowaku”, (accessed 19 February 2013).