Japan prüft die Auswirkungen härterer Strafen für Beleidigungen
https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2025110800112/japan-assessing-impact-of-tougher-penalties-for-insults.html
Japan prüft die Auswirkungen härterer Strafen für Beleidigungen
https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2025110800112/japan-assessing-impact-of-tougher-penalties-for-insults.html
10 Kommentare
Government of babies.
>An individual who on social media posted a picture of a victim and said the person’s looks were monstrous was fined 300,000 yen. Another perpetrator was fined 100,000 yen for insulting a person on a train, saying: „You’re young and bald. Your life is over.“
>While some victims positively evaluate the tougher penalties, others say, „Slander and defamation do not stop.“
You see, the only problem is that we haven’t put **enough** restrictions on your freedom of expression.
I thought Japan was doing better than the UK in this regard, turns out I’m probably only being saved from legal penalties by the abysmal quality of my Japanese.
Naive question but who would enforce this? The police?
I’m not one for insulting people but i am one for free speech.
I’ve been here for years and it’s getting harder and harder to take some of these things seriously.
I feel like Japan needs a better direction…
It seems to be doubling down on competitively insignificant things while just not doing anything about anything that matters.
A bit cliche but it’s definitely a case of rearranging the furniture on the titanic in 2025 in Japan.
Just my take.
My mother-in-law has a bad habit of randomly insulting people’s looks in public, and my wife is specifically not telling her about this so that MIL might be taken to court over it someday. Apparently, that’s the only way MIL will learn to not badmouth people?
(MIL is nice enough to me, but she’s a piece of work.)
So how do you get evidence? Besides online harassment?
Will it go both ways? So if a gaijin is insulted, will they pay, too?
Online reviews are gonna get even weirder if this goes through.
”The fish was rotten and the egg smelled of old farts but that’s Just the way I like it! Best restaurant ever! Can’t complain at all
1/5”
The English translation of this article is honestly terrible. You’d get a better result just running the original Japanese text through Google Translate.
Japan’s slander laws are way different from other countries. They will and do go after people for it.