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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习： 日本新闻自由保密与谎言 GRE阅读文章：GRE阅读练习： 日本新闻自由保密与谎言 GRE考试精品课程训练  “A PARADISE for spies” is how a former agent of the Soviet KGBdescribed Japan in the 1980s. Little has changed, though now the politiciansand bureaucrats more often pass information to journalists than to foreignagents. But this autumn Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, is trying to stop theleaks by passing a forceful new secrecy law, even as he seeks to pass economicreforms as part of his programme of measures known as “Abenomics”. He alsowants to legislate for a new national security council in order to centraliseintelligence information and speed decisions on national security. New rules onsecrecy are needed for it to function well, says the government. The media,fearful for press freedom, are crying foul.  “间谍的天堂”，在80年代，潜伏日本苏联克格勃特工如此称呼这个国度。到如今，“天堂”依然是“天堂”，只不过相比外国特工，政客与官员现在更多是把消息透露给记者。但这个秋天，安倍晋三首相决意推动一部新的强有力的保密法案，希望以此止住泄密。其认真程度，不下于他推动“安倍经济学”中的经济改革法案。他还想设立一个国家安全委员会，用以集中情报信息，便于对国家安全问题做出快速决策。政府称，国家安全委员会需要新保密法案的支持。为新闻自由担忧的媒体界高呼此举违规。  Japan is much less punitive than other countries towards leakers.Civil servants who breach rules on confidentiality are currently liable to justone year in prison. Only officials of Japan’s Self Defence Forces face thepossibility of stricter punishment: five years for leaking defence secrets, orten if they are gleaned from Japan’s 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, whensecurity elsewhere became tighter. This year America used its Espionage Act of1917 to hand down a 35-year prison sentence to Bradley Manning, a formersoldier, for passing information to the WikiLeaks website. Previous Japanesegovernments have tried to clamp down, but memories of the feared wartimesecrecy regime have caused moves to tighten the law to be blocked.  2001年9·11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