On January 31, Abe’s cabinet made a decision on to hold a prosecutor, Hiromu Kurokawa who is the second highest position in the office, after his retirement age, 63. He has worked closely with Abe’s cabinet. All of the major papers such as Yomiuri, Asahi and Mainichi reported the “highly unusual” decision, but it seemed to be overseen among people.
Since last weekend, a word has been on Twitter’s trend in Japan. #警察庁法改正案に講義します which means in Japanese “I oppose the revision of the public prosecutor’s office law,” has posted or retweeted over 3.8 million times. People are still posting with the hashtag even after a week of online protest.
Not only media outlets put opposite views on the law, but the biggest lawyer union and the opposition leaders in the parliament. This week, most likely the leading party would pass the law in the parliament and the alleged Abe cabinet’s illegal decision would be legitimised.
There are more to talk about how the prosecutor matters to Abe and why the cabinet decision has such a power when it comes to the politics. During this pandemic, the country is in confusion, the government is thinking of self-interest. Politicians are fur from “modest” which is the country’s reputation on people.
Japan has the second biggest newspaper circulation in the world and hire huge amount of journalists within the country. Why they can not hold the power to account? That is my huge question.
