Law criminalizing flag desecration represents state censorship of political expression and symbolic protest, part of an authoritarian consolidation under nationalist leadership that suppresses dissent.
New students of the National Defense Academy saluting the Japanese flag at a review parade in Yokosuka, Japan, in April.
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