Hate speech may soon be punishable by a 500,000-yen fine in one of Japan’s largest cities soranews24.com

One of Tokyo’s neighbors may become the first place in Japan to enact punishment for hate speech.
Be that as it may, it wasn’t until 2016 that Japan’s Diet passed a nationwide law outlawing hate speech.
By relying on people to refrain from hate speech because it’s not nice, it didn’t really change anything, because people engaging in hate speech and people concerned about being nice are generally two non-overlapping demographics.
In addition to hate speech related to ethnicity or nationality, the law also covers discriminatory statements about people based on physical/mental disabilities or sexual orientation.
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