This essay exposes the fatal limitations of Japan’s current legal framework in preventing terrorism before it occurs.
Through concrete examples such as hostage-taking and water-source poisoning, it demonstrates why existing laws are insufficient.
It further argues that opposition to anti-terrorism legislation by major media and political actors reflects a deeper ideological infiltration, likened to the legacy of Ozaki Hotsumi.

April 10, 2017.
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.

Impossible under current law.

Even so, Asahi Shimbun and the Democratic Party are not convinced.

They argue that the various criminal laws currently in place in Japan are sufficient to crack down on such acts.

Is that really the case?

Mr. Sato states unequivocally that it is impossible under current law.

“Let us assume that I am a member of a terrorist group.
One of my comrades has been thrown into prison.
I want to rescue him.
So I decide to take ordinary civilians hostage and exchange them for my imprisoned comrades.
Under the current law, even if terrorists formulate such a plan, the authorities cannot intervene.
Even if they purchase weapons in order to take hostages, they cannot be arrested.
Even if they carry those weapons and go near the house where their intended target lives, they still cannot be arrested.
Why?
Because they have not yet committed the crime.”

Under Japanese law, he explains, arrest becomes possible only after the perpetrators have actually broken into the targeted house with weapons in hand.

But by then, it is far too late.

How difficult it is to rescue hostages in the first place.

There is also a very real risk that victims will be killed.

Yet Japanese law is fundamentally designed to punish crimes after they occur, and as a result, it cannot protect what should be protected.

Mr. Sato then described another scenario.

“Let us assume that terrorists plan to poison a water source in order to kill many people and cause social chaos.
Under current law, even if they devise such a plan, they cannot be arrested.
Even if they purchase poison, they cannot be arrested.
Even if they go to the water source carrying the poison, nothing can be done.
Under current law, arrest is possible only at the very moment they throw the poison into the water source.”

What happens to the water source then?

The environment is contaminated, and people are driven to their deaths.

Even when such a situation can be foreseen, a legal system that cannot act until an incident actually occurs can hardly be considered adequate.

“Under the Anti-Terrorism Preparatory Offenses law, authorities would be able to arrest and interrogate suspects at the stage when they purchase weapons to take hostages or acquire poison to contaminate water sources.
The law functions to close a major loophole in the current legal system,” Mr. Sato explains.

Why is it unacceptable for Japan to ratify a treaty that 96 percent of countries have already concluded, and to proceed with the necessary legal preparations for that purpose?

Asahi Shimbun and the Democratic Party should stop opposing merely for the sake of opposition.

Yoshiko Sakurai.

I am now convinced that they are not opposing simply for the sake of opposition.

It is because many of them are, in reality, today’s Ozaki Hotsumi.

I am firmly convinced that it is no exaggeration to say that, in particular, all of the editorial writers at Asahi Shimbun fall into this category.

I am now convinced that perfect subversion, or perfect indoctrination, is something that penetrates even the unconscious realm.

Many of the so-called scholars, the so-called cultural figures, the so-called civic groups, and the so-called human-rights lawyers are, in fact, Ozaki Hotsumi.

Until August three years ago, they ruled Japan.

As a result, the progress of the Turntable of Civilization was halted, and the world has now entered an extremely unstable and dangerous state.