TSU The Mie prefectural assembly, responding to the uproar over an assemblyman’s online behavior, is deliberating an ordinance that will ban members from concurring with social media posts that infringe on human rights.
Sanae Takaichi, the minister in charge of economic security, on Oct. 7 denied being the source of inaccurate claims that most social media posts critical of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s state funeral came from overseas.
A Liberal Democratic Party local assembly member has drawn a backlash after tweeting that 80 percent of social media posts against former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's state funeral came from China, prompting him to retract his claims on Thursday. Takatora Kobayashi, an LDP member of the Mie prefectural assembly in…