Democracy in action

Ichiban! I am for the bill!

"Sniff this! Sniff this!!"

There are too many foreign agenda working in the parliaments and bureacracy in Japan. The bill will finally allow law to punish Chinese, Korean and other foreign agents in Japan.

Democracy in action

Or, depending on your perspective, the beginning of the end of democracy in action.

Taro Aso's Wehrmacht dream come true?

Don't these children realize that they look pathetic.

TV shows here make fun of stuff like this when it happens overseas, but don't ridicule these juvenile idiots.

Looks like a Korean government meeting where they break out in a fight. In this case, though, it's definitely something to fight over. Abe's Nazi dream is coming true, and soon if these guys try and protest like this they'll be locked up. Japan is the new China.

Wrong person? Shouldnt they do/shout at Abe?

Japan is the new China.

The difference between these two countries is narrowing. I've always thought of Japan as one of the world's greatest communist success stories.

@Marcelito I agree. There's nothing wrong with lawmakers showing anger, particularly against something as shady as this.

Good stuff!

ProbieDec. 06, 2013 - 09:04AM JST

Don't these children realize that they look pathetic.

Do they look pathetic? They do not look pathetic any more than people demonstrating against the bill on the street. Do you think demonstrators on the street pathetic, too?

The law makers are protesting because the discussion in the upper house was too short. The upper house received the bill on November 26, and the discussion was terminated on December 4, making the discussion time just 9 days including a Saturday and a Sunday for this controversial bill.

The current session of the parliament ends today. The next session will be convened in January. I think the discussion on the bill should be carried forward for the next session.

Nice to see life in the diet for a change.

I don't buy it.These clowns are just "clowning" for the cameras. The ONLY guy that is even halfway "agitated" is the guy holding the nose rag. Everybody else is politely standing back, wondering what to do.

If they were REALLY serious, they'd be throwing blows, and knocking over chairs.

Democracy inaction

Scrap the bill, we don't need another Patriot Act!

I felt bad for that woman who was standing up in the middle of the chamber with no protection. They nearly chewed her face off.

This is ho-hum compared to brawls, fistfights, hair-pulling, wig-snatching and chair-throwing in the Taiwan legislative chamber.