Society | Mar 09

Japan to toughen penalties for cyberbullying

Mar 09 (Japan Times) - The government adopted on Tuesday a set of bills to revise laws — including the Penal Code — to toughen the penalties for insults in order to deter online libel and cyberbullying, which are increasingly becoming problematic.

Also included in the bills is the creation of a new form of punishment that combines two existing types of imprisonment, one with labor and the other without.

The government also approved a bill to amend the Civil Procedure Law to allow for all civil court procedures to go online.

It hopes to have the bills enacted during the ongoing ordinary session of the parliament, set to end in June.

The bill to punish insults would newly include a prison term of up to one year or a fine of up to Y300,000, on top of the detention or petty fine stipulated in the current law. ...continue reading


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