Abuse coming in 3..2..1... As with every law involving limitation of free speech, it will be easily abused by powerful people against less powerful people. Al

Abuse coming in 3..2..1... As with every law involving limitation of free speech, it will be easily abused by powerful people against less powerful people. Also, it appears they already had a perfectly legit punishment: " ... The penalty applied to the crime under the pre-revised law was "detention for less than 30 days" or "a fine of less than 10,000 yen (roughly $74)" -- the lightest punishments under the Penal Code. ..." Now I don't know anything about prisons in Japan, but I'm 100% sure I wouldn't want to spend 29 days in any jail for any reason. Wouldn't ensuring any abuser gets that 4 weeks in jail be already a hell of a deterrence? Note that I'm totally in favor of hard fighting bullism of any kind, but not in a way that could be easily abused; serving jail for "insults to damage one's reputation" seems just too broad and a very handy tool to hit journalists, political adversaries and freedom of information in general.