The Liberal Democratic Party has issued a document containing rebuttals to newspaper articles that criticized the state secrets law. The arguments and explanations in the document are far from convincing.
There is a strong possibility that LDP lawmakers will use the document to try to persuade voters to accept the secrecy law, which was railroaded through the Diet on Dec. 6 by the LDP and its coalition partner, New Komeito.
The public must not be misled by the LDP document and those who use it to justify the law.
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