Yesterday in Japan for “insulting on the internet” you could be sentenced to up to one year in prison. Persons convicted of online defamation can also be fined up to 300,000 Yen.

It was also stated that the law will be reviewed after three years to determine whether it affects freedom of expression as critics claim.

Interestingly, there is no clear definition of what constitutes defamation, Seiho Cho, a criminal lawyer in Japan, told CNN after the law passed. The law says that libel means to humiliate a person without stating a specific fact about himself – unlike libel, it is classified as humiliating a person with a specific fact about himself. “Even if at the moment someone calls Japan’s leader an idiot, that would qualify as an insult under the revised law,” Cho said.