It took about two decades but this country is finally going to launch a program that is very similar to what the pint sized actor and A list director showed the world was going to be crime’s future.
Japan
Tom Cruise
Director: Steven Spielberg
The Minority Report
Based on a story by famed science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, “Minority Report” is an action-detective thriller set in Washington D.C. in 2054, where police utilize a psychic technology to arrest and convict murderers before they commit their crime. Tom Cruise plays the head of this Precrime unit and is himself accused of the future murder of a man he hasn’t even met.
This is the law passed in 2017Japan’s lawmakers have recently passed a controversial bill that grants authorities the power to target terror conspiracies. The new law criminalizes the plotting and commission of 277 specific acts and is an amendment to the existing law against organized crime syndicates. The bill prohibits activities such as procuring funds or supplies and surveying locations in preparation for these offenses.
The legislation allows charging an entire group, defined as two or more people, if at least one member is found to be involved in plotting the crime. Additionally, the law prohibits the expansion or maintenance of illicit interests of organized crime groups.
The initial draft of the bill included 676 crimes, but it was eventually reduced to the final 277 acts in the passed version.
The law bans the plotting of serious crimes such as terrorism plus some lesser offenses such as;
- Avoiding paying consumption tax
- Copying music
- Sit-ins to protest against the construction of apartment buildings
- Using forged stamps
- Competing in a motor boat race without a licence
- Mushroom picking in conservation forests
