Staff writer
Use it to improve it -- that was the message two American experts on information disclosure law offered Japan this week while speaking in Tokyo about the U.S. experience with the law.
After nearly two decades of tenacious lobbying, Japanese advocates of a freedom of information law celebrated when the bill was finally submitted to the Diet late last month. With deliberation slated to begin this session, establishment of the nation's first national information disclosure law is within sight.
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