Japan as a Spy Paradise — How Media Hysteria Serves China’s Strategy

This essay analyzes how Japanese media sensationalized the Toyonaka case, why Japan has become a haven for espionage, and why certain political and media actors vehemently oppose conspiracy laws that are standard worldwide.

March 17, 2017

I have been informing the world that it is China that watches with satisfaction as the media, following the lead of the Asahi Shimbun, reports the Toyonaka case day after day as if it were a major incident, and I have asked what China’s true intention behind this is.
Japan, which can be said to be virtually the only country in the world lacking a full-fledged intelligence agency and where crimes of treason against the state are practically nonexistent, is a rare example of a paradise for spies.
With the Tokyo Olympics approaching, the government judged that things could not continue as they were and sought to enact laws that are standard around the world, allowing the arrest of individuals who plot acts such as terrorism under conspiracy statutes.
For some reason, those vehemently opposing this are precisely the opposition parties, the Asahi Shimbun and other media outlets, so-called cultural figures who echo them, as well as so-called human rights lawyers and citizen groups who are currently trying to turn the Toyonaka matter into a major uproar.
Some time has passed since the Personal Information Protection Act was enacted and enforced, a law that these same forces strongly supported.
The result has been a situation in which various criminals are thoroughly protected, or at best, where the only visible effect is that the addresses and incomes of entertainers are no longer reported.
In other words, it was a law designed merely to protect criminals and celebrities.
Ninety-nine percent of the Japanese people lived ordinary lives without suffering any disadvantage before this law came into force, despite its absence.
The faces of the members who held a private meeting for an hour and a half at the home of a man named Kamoike—the central figure in the Toyonaka affair, previously unknown to 99.9 percent of the Japanese people, though certainly well known to the Asahi Shimbun and Chinese intelligence agencies—are astonishing.
They included Koike of the Communist Party, Mizuho Fukushima, and four members including Democratic Party legislators.
I am convinced that their relentless opposition to the enactment of conspiracy laws stems from the fact that the structures through which they have long disrupted the state and weakened Japan’s national power, including collusion with foreign intelligence agencies, would be exposed or made far more difficult in the future.
They have brazenly gone so far as to travel to the United Nations to denigrate Japan and damage its credibility and honor—acts carried out in places unknown to 99.9 percent of the Japanese people—and I am convinced that they are desperately opposing these laws because such actions would clearly constitute conspiracy crimes as well.