This essay, originally written on February 9, 2023 with an explanatory note added on May 27, 2024, argues that Japan is effectively the only G7 nation—and almost the only country in the world—without an anti-espionage law, making it a “spy heaven” surrounded by totalitarian states such as China, North Korea, and Russia. After summarizing the aborted 1985 Anti-Spy Bill (“Bill on the Prevention of Acts of Espionage Involving State Secrets”) and its U.S.–Japan origins, the author describes how Roman Polanski’s film The Ghost Writer prompted a “transcendent” realization about political motives and propaganda. The piece contends that espionage by Soviet agents has at least partially been exposed, whereas Chinese and Korean operations against Japan have never been publicly revealed, and claims that a past attempt to legislate counter-espionage measures under Abe Shinzo was crushed by networks of embedded spies. Citing online allegations about a female opposition politician, the activist Himasora Akane’s exposure of a “red network” and so-called “tax money sucking,” and the alleged role of Korean and Chinese operatives in Abe’s assassination, the essay paints contemporary Japan as deeply infiltrated by foreign agents using honey traps and money traps, while a postwar media order led by Asahi Shimbun supposedly conditions public opinion against national security reform.

2023/2/9
The following is a note as of 2024/5/27.
*The Bill on the Prevention of Acts of Espionage, etc. Involving State Secrets was a bill to punish acts of espionage, submitted to the House of Representatives in June 1985 by members of the Liberal Democratic Party as legislation initiated by Diet members.
In the 103rd Extraordinary Session of the Diet in the same year, the bill was scrapped due to failure to be deliberated.
It is abbreviated as the Anti-Spy Bill or State Secrets Bill.
Outline
The bill consists of a total of 14 articles and supplementary provisions.
It prescribes the duty of confidentiality of public officials regarding diplomatic and defense-related national secret matters and aims to prevent acts of leaking such information to third parties.
Moreover, the acts subject to prohibition or punishment include not only completed acts, but also attempted acts and preparatory acts such as detecting and collecting classified information, as well as leakage due to negligence (such as the loss of documents related to classified information).
The maximum penalty is death or life imprisonment (Article 4).
History
Talks with the United States and consideration of legislation
In 1957, Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi was asked by U.S. President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles in their talks to enact a “secrets protection law” in Japan.
In response, Prime Minister Kishi answered, “We must by all means engage in scientific research and wish to receive assistance from the United States.
As for the secrets protection law, we would like to take legislative measures in due course,” and, “It is something that ought to be done on Japan’s own initiative, so I would like to ensure that the fact this topic came up in our talks does not leak.”
While in office, Kishi did consider legal arrangements, but did not submit the relevant bill.
Omitted hereafter.
The above is from Wikipedia.

What follows is a rough draft.
Japan is the only country in the world that has no law against spying.
“The only country in the world without an Anti-Spy Law is Japan” | “Anti-Spy Law” Promotion Site (spyboshi.jp)
The other day, when I was looking at the program guide on WOWOW, I saw a listing that made me absolutely certain, “This one has to be a really good film.”
Naturally, I recorded it.
That was quite recently.
I had thought of watching it live on the day, since it was scheduled to start at around nine p.m., but I had the feeling it would eat into my sleeping hours, and I was in the middle of writing for this column and could not stop, so I decided to watch the recording instead.
“The Ghost Writer,” directed by Roman Polanski, starring Ewan McGregor, with Pierce Brosnan as a former prime minister.
There is no way it could be a bad film.
It was a world apart from the recent mass of trash produced in Hollywood since it began kowtowing to China—films not even worthy of being called films.
Now then, my friends, especially those I met after I became a businessman, should remember that I have occasionally said the following.
“Genius recognizes genius” and “the first-rate recognize the first-rate.”
Among that category of sayings are also Professor Hiroshi Furuta’s words “intuition” and “transcendence.”
Roman Polanski’s film brought a certain transcendence to me.
So, before writing this chapter, I first decided to check the facts about its opening and did a search.
I was staggered to find that it was exactly as I had thought.
This film is a superb suspense movie in which the main theme is “the reason (trigger, motive) for becoming a politician.”
The Korean Peninsula, China, and Russia, all totalitarian states for which propaganda—political operations—is everything both domestically and internationally, are encircling Japan, the only country in the world that has no anti-spy law.
When Russia was still the Soviet Union, when the Soviet Union was the headquarters of the Comintern, the espionage operations the Soviet Union carried out against Japan were exposed to broad daylight.
The two incidents that I have taken up several times in this column are unshakable facts.
Roman Polanski enabled me to transcend.
As for the spying carried out by the Korean Peninsula and China against Japan, not once has it ever been brought into the light of day.
I believe it was when Mr. Abe was prime minister that a move for enacting an anti-spy law surfaced once, but at that moment the spies who had infiltrated and were living in all sectors, precisely because they knew Japan’s unique weakness as the only country in the world without an anti-spy law, all raised their voices in opposition at once and killed the bill.
This is, in fact, an unthinkable, shameful, and pitiable story in any G7 country.
For example, there was a person who was nothing more than a female student at Waseda University, yet engaged in activities that are inconceivable for an ordinary private individual.
After graduation, she joined an opposition party whose leader was apparently a woman of Korean descent living in Japan, and became a politician.
On the internet there are even articles stating that the public security authorities “determined that she is a spy for North Korea,” and yet.
This woman brazenly continues, at every turn, to disparage Japan.
Until recently, Asahi Shimbun was strangely devoted to this woman.
NHK also frequently aired footage of her in its news programs.
A figure called Himasora Akane appeared and exposed to broad daylight the red network that had begun to infiltrate the government.
He is putting into practice, in the best sense, the saying “everything begins with one person.”
Japan, which has no anti-spy law, is a spy heaven for spies.
Postwar Japan, as created by Asahi Shimbun—which is by no means an exaggeration to describe as a fabricated newspaper written to disparage Japan—has been exactly that.
The phrase “sucking up tax money,” which symbolizes Himasora Akane’s efforts, will continue to shine brightly as the symbol of his exposing this negative aspect.
The Korean Peninsula and China have woven networks across every field, and their agents—spies—who have burrowed into every sector finally went so far as to carry out the assassination of Mr. Abe.
The bizarre response by the mass media and others after the assassination itself proves my transcendence.
The person known as Miyane-ya and the like turned out, from their perspective, to be a man of distinguished service.
The eerie nature of their opposition movements against Mr. Abe while he was alive also proves that my transcendence hits the mark.
Their campaigns were utterly off the mark with respect to Mr. Abe’s record of achievements, and they were so unbelievable as to defy comprehension.
The only ones saying the same things as they did and agitating the public were China and the Korean Peninsula.
Japan is the only G7 country, and indeed a rare country even in the world, in which an unbelievable number of Korean and Chinese spies inhabit every sector.
There is no room for doubt that every one of them has been subjected to honey traps and money traps.
In China, honey traps are apparently described as the cheapest atomic bomb.
That is hardly surprising.
The moment such a scandal is exposed, politicians, media people, scholars, and others lose their positions in an instant, and salarymen and office ladies see their families collapse.
This manuscript will continue.