When the new state secrets protection law takes effect within a year, it will impose severe punishments on public servants and other people who leak information concerning security.
INTERVIEW: Foreigners' rights activist says new secrecy law may encourage xenophobia
Activist Shin Sugok speaks in an interview with The Asahi Shimbun in Tokyo on Dec. 9. (Photo by Kazuhiro Nagashima)
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