 In the film , Bond is dispatched to Japan after American and Soviet manned spacecraft disappear mysteriously in orbit . With each nation <unk> the other amidst the Cold War , Bond travels secretly to a remote Japanese island in order to find the <unk> and comes face to face with Ernst Stavro Blofeld , the head of SPECTRE . The film reveals the appearance of Blofeld , who was previously a partially unseen character . SPECTRE is <unk> the government of an unnamed Asian power , implied to be the People 's Republic of China , in order to provoke war between the <unk> . 
