While there are many conservative members in the assembly, there was strong criticism about the forced vote in the Diet. I hope the central government and Diet will humbly listen to the voices of loca

these japanese don't understand, it was the US govt who requested this secrecy law because Japan intel is like a sieve. Everything the US is doing even in high level talks ends up in being divulged to China, South Korea and North Korea. Japanese can't keep a secret.

The problem is that there is zero oversight built into the law, leading to almost guaranteed probability that it will be abused. If they had built a responsible secrets law it would have been ok, but they essentially built a facist secreta law.