Society
California Spy-Mayor Case Reignites Japan's Spy Prevention Act Debate
The former mayor of Arcadia, California pled to acting as an illegal Chinese agent, and Japanese commenters immediately mapped the case onto domestic politics — 'if it happened there, Japan is already infiltrated.' A Brazilian-national PC-server theft in Shiga and a Nintendo bomb-threat arrest landed on the same day, and threads merged them into one verdict that media name-anonymization is hiding a foreign crime wave.