Diet starts deliberating personal info protection bill

Diet starts deliberating personal info protection bill

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi watches as Posts Minister Toranosuke Katayama, who is in charge of public management and home affairs, leaves the rostrum after introducing a bill to protect personal information in the House of Representatives on April 25. The lower house immediately started deliberating the bill that critics fear may violate the freedom of expression guaranteed in the Constitution.

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