http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/geted.pl5?ed20050803a1.htm
"The government has reportedly given up a plan to have the Diet enact within the current session a bill to enable Japan to join a multilateral treaty to combat international organized crime, but it intends to introduce it again in the next Diet session. The bill carries a danger of undermining a national legal principle that no criminal liability is established unless a crime is actually committed. It also could impair freedom of thought, speech and expression guaranteed by the Constitution. It must be substantially rewritten before it is resubmitted."
