'Japanese police could soon gain the power to secretly access a suspect's smartphone remotely, without physically seizing the device or notifying its owner.
On October 16, Japan's cabinet approved a bill allowing investigators to examine messages inside encrypted applications, including those with disappearing-message features.' The Daily Nippon.
How would that even be possible though? except to legislate that all people carry only phones with built-in backdoors.
Later this month, they arrested the first person for refusing to unlock his phone for police.