>The Osaka city assembly on Friday passed an ordinance authorizing publicly disclosing the names of groups engaged in disseminating racist propaganda recognized as hate speech, the first ordinance of its kind in Japan.
>Osaka, which is home to a large Korean community, decided to create its own ordinance to curb discriminatory activities, while local assemblies elsewhere have taken other measures such as asking the central government to regulate hate speech.
>Some are concerned the ordinance may be implemented arbitrarily or compromise freedom of expression guaranteed under the Constitution.
>In recent years anti-Korean groups have held rallies leading to confrontations with those opposed to their activities, particularly in Tokyo’s Shin-Okubo district and Osaka’s Tsuruhashi area, both known as Koreatowns.
>The ordinance defines hate speech as communication which defames and aims to exclude a particular group based on race or ethnicity, and disseminating such a message to a large number people, including via online transmission....
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