Lawmakers from ruling and opposition parties launched a bipartisan group Tuesday to draw up legislation that will enable Japan to impose sanctions on countries over human rights abuses.The move came in response to criticism that Japan has been slow to take action against such abuses occurring in China's far western Xinjiang region, Hong Kong and Myanmar, even after the United States and other Western countries have imposed sanctions.The group, jointly led by Liberal Democratic Party member Gen Nakatani, a former defense minister, and Shiori Yamao, a House of Representatives member of the op…READ FULL ARTICLE
