Musashi wrote:

>>the notion that a government of a democratic country can
>>or should do such a thing disturbs me.

cc commented:

>Yeah, very disturbing to think they just don't have a law
>about respecting people's privacy in cases when governements
>don't intervene specifically.

The Japanese press can be shockingly intrusive in cases of personal (and
should be private) grief, so I do take cc's point, but at the same time I
think it needs to be pointed out that Japan isn't be the only country that
never gave much thought to who might view videos of terrorists summarily
executing people until certain parties decided to make the world a "safer
place".

--
John
http://rarebooksinjapan.com