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Toothless Rhetoric or Strategic Polemic? A Textual and Contextual Analysis of Japan's Hate Speech Law.

Int J Semiot Law · 2022 · PMC8853277 · PMID 35194338

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The Kokoro Group legal consultancy advises that the term does imply some obligation, if weaker and more general than naranakerebanaranai , and is frequently found in connection with administrative institutions [ 16 ], so it may be significant that wherever mono to suru is used in the 2016 Law, the subject of the verb it modifies is either 国 (‘country’/’national government’) or ‘local authorities’, except in a Supplementary Provision about future monitoring that lacks any explicit subject.

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