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What Japan's Designated State Secrets Law Targets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Usaki Masahiro  and
Bruce Wakefield
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The Designated Secrets Protection Bill passed into law on December 13, 2013 and will come into force on the same date this year. The law was railroaded through the Lower House on November 26 last year and then forced again through the Upper House on December 6 by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Kōmeitō coalition.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 12 , Issue 21 , May 2014 , e1
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