国家の象徴は「旗」か、天皇陛下か｜弁護士が問う「国旗損壊罪」と外国国章損壊罪の違い【横山賢司／研究員所見】

While there is a crime of damaging a foreign national emblem (Article 92 of the Penal Code), why has there been no such crime as "damaging Japan's national flag" until now? Kenji Yokoyama, a lawyer and visiting researcher at a national salvation think tank, explains the key points of the "damaging Japan's national flag" crime currently being debated in the Diet. He will discuss the fundamental differences from the crime of damaging a foreign national emblem, its relationship to freedom of thought and conscience, and the question of "what constitutes a national symbol?" From a legal perspective, he will organize the points that should be discussed now. ▼Speaker Kenji Yokoyama, Visiting Researcher at the National Salvation Think Tank and Lawyer ▼Chapters 0:00 Opening 0:35 Why Was There No "Crime of Damaging the National Flag"? / The Meaning of the Crime of Damaging Foreign National Emblems (Security and the Arrow Incident) 4:56 Differences in Protected Legal Interests (Diplomatic Interests vs. Public Respect) 6:00 "Forced Respect" and Freedom of Thought and Conscience 7:20 Are Minorities Included in "General Public Sentiment"? 8:00 Is the Symbol of the Nation the "Flag" or the Emperor? 🏛 Upcoming Event July 26, 2026 (Sun) 14:00-17:50 National Salvation Think Tank Special Forum "For the People to Protect the Imperial Family" Venue: Akihabara TKP *For details and registration, please visit the official website ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ① Activities of the National Salvation Think Tank ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The National Salvation Think Tank is a think tank that conducts policy research for Japan to survive as a civilized nation on Earth. Support and donations are accepted through our official website. ▼ Recruiting National Salvation Think Tank Members and Supporting Members https://kyuukoku.com/support/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ② Books Related to the National Salvation Think Tank ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 "Japan and the US Will Prosper with the Trump-Takaichi Alliance: The New World Vision of the Second Trump Administration" PHP Shinsho https://amzn.asia/d/fMVuu9R 📚 "Constitutional Self-Defense Forces" * The National Salvation Think Tank Series: "Important Issues for National Salvation" https://amzn.asia/d/01rKxpYg ★ "The Quran Speaks" is 350 yen per copy. We will sell it to you in units of 10 at cost. Please contact us at [email protected]. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ③ Official Website & SNS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▼ National Salvation Think Tank Official Website https://kyuukoku.com/ 🏛️ Register Here https://kyuukoku.com/support/ 🔔 Please Subscribe to Our Channel!    / @チャンネルくらら   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ④ Next LIVE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ July 3rd (Thu) 17:30〜 📢━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 【NEW】 YouTube Membership ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌟 Channel Kurara Member Monthly fee: 2,790 yen (tax included) 【Benefits】 ✓ Member-only special broadcast after the LIVE (30 minutes) ✓ Researcher analysis and opinion exchange video ✓ Member badge (6 levels depending on membership period) ✓ Custom emojis ✓ Member-only community post ✨ Channel Kurara Supporter Monthly fee: 5,600 yen (tax included) *Premium plan To join, please click the "Become a Member" button on the channel page. #Researcher's Opinion #Kenji Yokoyama #Crime of Destruction of National Flag #Crime of Destruction of Foreign National Emblems #National Salvation Think Tank #Mitsuru Kurayama