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Enemies of the State: Free Speech and Japan's Courts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David McNeill
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Is Obora Toshiyuki a threat to society? The Japanese state certainly seems to think so. The police arrested the bespectacled, 47-year-old elementary school worker, interrogated him in grueling five-hour stretches and held him in detention for 75 days. “I thought it would never end,” says Obora, who claims the arrest came “out of the blue.”

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , February 2006 , e11
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