국민의 알권리를 제한하는 일본의 특정비밀보호법과 그 숨은 의도

December 2013, the Abe administration of Japan promulgated 'The Designated Secrets Protection Act,' in the name of ensuring national security, for the prevention of open to the public of specially designated informations.' Compared to the past, this Act strikingly expanded the categories of information subject to secrecy designation and empowered every Cabinet Ministry and major agency of the government to designate information secret. And in order to better enforce the new regime, the maximum penalty for violation of the Act would be increased to ten years imprisonment. About this Act, Japan’s bar associations and other advocates of constitutional democracy have expressed deep concern that this Act would infringe the people’s right to know, the freedom of speech and the right of privacy, ect. and that, with the result, would stop the parliamentary function of surveillance over the government. More serious problem of this Act is that the political intention of the Abe administration is hidden in this Act. In the meantime, the Abe administration has been strongly focused on making 'a country capable of warfighting' by the so-called 'revision of the Constitution by interpretation or legislatives,' in order to secure 'the collective selfdefence right' under the name of 'the positive pacifism.' Therefore many peoples in Japan say that this Act is made in this context, namely to create 'a country capable of warfighting'. The current way that Abe pursuits is very similar to the way experienced by Japanese militarism before World War Ⅱ, in which of self-destruction caused by the Asia Pacific War. We can not reap the looks of concern in the Abe government's moves which does not reflect the history of the war, because we can not forget our painful experience of Japanese colonial domination.