What is the punishment for speaking ill of the government in Japan?
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There are no laws against criticising the government here in Japan...! (Just as well from a personal point of view!!!) But if you accused a politician (or anyone else) of a crime he or she didn't commit I expect you'd be breaking the law ...!\n\nJapanese people are, on the whole, utterly, totally, and completely INDIFFERENT to politics! There's not a lot of choice you see ... they're ALL appalling scumbags! Why would anyone get excited and rush off to vote??!\nWell, to be honest, SOME people care about politics ... the people who belong to the various political parties! You can spot their homes easily, because they have portrait election posters in their windows all year round!
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I sure hope not.  There should never be any governmental interference in speech that is offensive or hate filled.  Only when there is clear evidence that the speech is a direct threat towards an individual should the law be able to take any action. If people could be jailed for offending, we all would be wearing prison uniforms.
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Emperor: Akihito\nPrime Minister: Junichiro Koizumi\n\nDon't know how much the PM is paid.
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As in any kind of civil dis-obedience, you should not do it if you are not prepared to be prosecuted for breaking the law.\n\nOf course if everybody who didn't like something about what the government was doing didn't pay taxes, there would be no taxes paid, and we would not have a country.  No police, not army, no money, etc.
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Japan. You cannot become a citizen unless you are Japanese.
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Kuriyama, I agree absolutely with you. However, I think you are wrong about Yahoo answers, the questioner could get something going here with like minded people to organise and get rid of the shits that run his country.
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All states have constitutional procedures to remove an elected official. They are: recall, removal upon conviction of a felony, malfeasance or nonfeasance while in office or incapacity due to illness or insanity.
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Japan is generally considered to be a constitutional monarchy. The "highest organ of state power" is its bicameral parliament, the Kokkai or "Diet". The Diet consists of a House of Representatives (Lower House or Shugi-in) containing 480 seats, elected by popular vote every four years, and a House of Councillors (Upper House or Sangi-in) of 247 seats, whose popularly elected members serve six-year terms. There is universal adult (over 20 years old) suffrage with a secret ballot for all elective offices. \n\nThe Cabinet is composed of a Prime Minister and ministers of state, and is responsible to the Diet. The Prime Minister must be a member of the Diet and is designated by his colleagues. The Prime Minister has the power to appoint and remove ministers, a majority of whom must be Diet members. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has been in power since 1955, except for a short-lived coalition government formed from its opposition parties in 1993; the largest opposition party is the Democratic Party of Japan\n\n\neverything about japan in this site \n\nhttp://www.wordiq.com/definition/Japan
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Simple dude ... our country's government sucks!
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When an irate citizen demands that a disfavored public official be impeached, the citizen clearly intends for the official to be removed from office. This popular use of impeach as a synonym of "throw out" (even if by due process) does not accord with the legal meaning of the word. As recent history has shown, when a public official is impeached, that is, formally accused of wrongdoing, this is only the start of what can be a lengthy process that may or may not lead to the official's removal from office. In strict usage, an official is impeached (accused), tried, and then convicted or acquitted. The vaguer use of impeach reflects disgruntled citizens' indifference to whether the official is forced from office by legal means or chooses to resign to avoid further disgrace.
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Japan doesn't have a president.  There is a prime minister though.  his name is Junichiro Koizumi.
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When the government refuses to take certain actions or suppresses people.
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SHINZO ABE IS PM OF JAPAN
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Japan's military actually was the government during WWII\nThe web site below gives a quick summary of the Japanese government from 1916 to 1945.\n\nhttp://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2129.html
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It is a citizens duty to point out that our government is not being run properly, government of the people, by the people, for the people. To do other then to question is unpatriotic. Anything else is censorship and is not to be tolerated in a free society.
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What about the legal ones look what happened to the Japanese during world war two
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Japan is a democracy.