Masakazu Sekiguchi Hiroyuki Nagahama Yukihiko Imasaki Kazuo Ueda
[1] The act was passed in order to comply with United Nation's International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which stands for eliminating hate speech from the world.
[2] [3] Nippon Ishin no Kai argues that the bill should expand to include insults.
[citation needed] The Liberal Democratic Party, on the other hand, argues that criminalizing hate speech would lead to loss of freedom.
[4] Moving forward, it is unclear whether or not Japan will more strictly enforce the Hate Speech Act of 2016.