The nascent pro-privacy movement in Japan

This is an extract from "Peace and Privacy in the Pacific" an article by Jennifer Granick at Wired News.

In 2004, three men distributing leaflets opposing the Iraq war near a Japanese military base were arrested, interrogated, held for 75 days and then convicted and fined for trespassing.

Many people believe that the prosecution of these men, who came to be known as the Tachikawa Three, was heavy-handed and discriminatory. The Tachikawa Three have become a rallying point for two movements: Japanese pacifists opposing constitutional changes that would free the nation to join military actions, and a nascent pro-privacy movement that's gaining surprising ground in a country with no native word for "privacy."

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