Japan is much less punitive than other countries towards leakers. Civil servants who breachrules on confidentiality are currently liable to just one year in prison. Only officials ofJapans Self Defence Forces face the possibility of stricter punishment: five years for leakingdefence secrets, or ten if they are gleaned from Japans security pact with America.
相比其他国家,日本对泄密者的惩罚较轻。违规泄密的公务员只会被判一年徒刑。只有自卫队的官员会遭受更严厉的惩罚:泄露军事机密判5年,收集日美军事关系情报的判10年。
The gap widened after the events of September 11th 2001, when security elsewherebecame tighter. This year America used its Espionage Act of 1917 to hand down a 35-yearprison sentence to Bradley Manning, a former soldier, for passing information to theWikiLeaks website. Previous Japanese governments have tried to clamp down, but memoriesof the feared wartime secrecy regime have caused moves to tighten the law to be blocked.
2001年911之后,全球各地的安全局势变得紧张,而对军人泄密的惩罚也随之加重。今年,美国依照1917年制定的《反间谍法》,判处了布拉德利曼宁35五年监禁。这位曾经的军人因向维基解密网站提供情报而获罪。日本前几任的政府都曾努力推动类似法案,但由于对战时保密制度的恐惧记忆犹新,法案受到了阻挠。
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