http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20061112TDY02001.htm

so... to enhance diplomatic relations (read: make us love Japan) and "help related industries expand their business opportunities abroad" (read: make anime and manga more widely available to you & me), they want to "urge foreign leaders to take adequate measures against pirated products" (read: kill the fansub industry which is the only way to get about 90% of extant manga and anime outside Japan, not to mention the only way to get translations that don't make you sick for most of the other 10%)