在日朝鮮一派 送還運動中 0053名無しさん@1周年2017/05/30(火) 23:52:51.90ID:idarYQhE0http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/30/national/social-issues/u-n-rights-expert-airs-concern-japans-freedom-expression/#.WS2GpGjyjmQ avid Kaye, U.N. special rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, raised concerns about the contentious secrecy law for the prevention of leaks of state secrets that took effect in 2014. | KYODO NATIONAL / SOCIAL ISSUES U.N. rights expert airs concern about Japan’s freedom of expression KYODO MAY 30, 2017 ARTICLE HISTORY PRINT SHARE GENEVA ? A U.N. rights expert who visited Japan last year noted “significant worrying signals” for the country’s freedom of expression and opinion in a report released on Tuesday in Geneva.
The lack of debate over historical events, restrictions on access to information justified on national security grounds and government pressure on media “require attention lest they undermine Japan’s democratic foundations,” said David Kaye, U.N. special rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression.
The report, to be presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council in June, is the result of the first research ever on freedom of expression in Japan conducted by a U.N. special rapporteur.
Kaye criticized the government’s influence over school textbooks, saying members of the Textbook Authorization Research Council are ultimately appointed by the education ministry.
“Government influence over how textbooks treat the reality of the crimes committed during the Second World War undermines the public’s right to know and its ability to grapple with and understand its past,” Kaye said.
He noted in particular the gradual disappearance from textbooks of the issue of “comfort women,” who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II. The issue was first introduced in textbooks in 1997.
While all seven 1997 junior high school history textbooks took up the issue, no description was included in textbooks from 2012 to 2015 and only one mentioned it in 2016.
Kaye also aired concerns about the contentious secrecy law for the prevention of leaks of state secrets that took effect in 2014.
Under the law, civil servants or others who leak designated secrets could face up to 10 years in prison, and those who instigate leaks, including journalists, could be subject to prison terms of up to five years.
While welcoming government efforts to clarify the four specific categories under which information may be designated as secret ? defense, diplomacy, prevention of specified harmful activities and prevention of terrorist activities ? Kaye warned that “specific subcategories remain overly broad” and thus involve the risk of being arbitrarily applied.
Regarding government pressure on media, Kaye raised concerns over the broadcasting law and particularly its Article 4, which provides the basis for the government to suspend broadcasting licenses if TV stations are not “politically fair.”
Kaye said that the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications “should not be in the position of determining what is fair.”
“Government evaluation of such broadly stated norms would lead to deterrence of the media’s freedom to serve as a watchdog, if it is not already creating such disincentives to reporting,” he added.
Kaye, professor of law at the University of California, Irvine, specializes in international human rights law and international humanitarian law. He was appointed as rapporteur by the Human Rights Council in August 2014. 0054名無しさん@1周年2017/05/30(火) 23:53:46.70ID:GTzWs9Zj0 ★核酸
これは共同通信 U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has told Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he backs the agreement signed by Tokyo and Seoul on the Korean women who were forced to work in Japan’s wartime military brothels, the Foreign Ministry said. (外務省によると、アントニオ・グテレス国連事務総長は、安倍晋三総理に対し 日本政府と韓国政府の間で調印された、戦時中軍の慰安所で働く事を強要された 朝鮮人女性の問題に関する合意を支持すると表明した。) と書いてある。