An analysis of why opposition parties, activists, and legal organizations fiercely resist Japan’s conspiracy law—despite the fact that it poses no threat to ordinary citizens—and what this resistance reveals about Japan’s status as a so-called “spy paradise.”

2017-03-21

For decent Japanese citizens, this law is entirely self-evident, and even if it is enacted, it causes not a single problem—indeed, no hindrance whatsoever.
At present, regarding the so-called conspiracy law, which exists in virtually every country in the world except for a very small number such as Japan, Iran, and Bhutan, opposition parties, so-called cultural figures, so-called civic groups, and the Japan Federation of Bar Associations are raising voices of opposition.
For upright Japanese citizens, this law is utterly natural, and its enactment would cause absolutely no disruption at all.
Those who are now shouting in opposition are doing so desperately because they are acutely aware that they themselves have long engaged in conspiracies to demean Japan, continually damaging Japan’s and the Japanese people’s international honor and credibility on the global stage.
Put more simply, they are desperately opposing it because Japan would no longer remain a spy paradise, and espionage activities could no longer be carried out as freely as before.
In other words, all those who are now raising their voices in opposition are proving that they have previously engaged in traitorous activities and statements, acting in accordance with the intentions of China and South Korea.
The Japanese people should recognize that the time has finally come to see clearly that those opposing the conspiracy law are precisely the individuals who have been conducting criminal activities against Japan.
That labor unions are opposing it is likely nothing more than fear that sending people and funds to anti-base movements in Okinawa would, naturally, become subject to the conspiracy law.
The same, needless to say, applies to anti-nuclear movements.