Respect the flag – or else…
Right-wing Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi keeps charting her conservative course, implementing her agenda unconcerned with the inevitable whining from the liberal media and the leftist opposition.
Yesterday (17), it was reported that the Japanese Upper House of Parliament passed legislation ‘criminalizing the desecration of Japan’s national flag’.
The legislation counted on the support of parts of the opposition, despite ‘concerns’ that the measure would ‘infringe on freedom of expression’.
The approved law will punish anyone who ‘publicly damages, removes or defaces the flag’ in a way causes ‘extreme discomfort or disgust to others’.