Saturday, March 7, 2015

Japan Reforming Its Intelligence Agencies

Reuters / Toru Hanai

Reuters: Japan eyes MI6-style spy agency as it seeks to shed pacifist past

(Reuters) - Japan is looking into creating an overseas intelligence agency possibly modeled on Britain's MI6 spy service, ruling party lawmakers say, 70 years after Allied victors dismantled Japan's fearsome military intelligence apparatus following World War Two.

A new foreign intelligence agency would be an integral part of a security framework Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is building as he seeks to loosen the post-war pacifist constitution's limits on the military's ability to operate overseas.

More News On Japan Planning To Establish An MI6-Style Spy Agency

Japan Plans Spy Agency Modeled after MI6 -- I4U News
Japan Considers MI6-Inspired Foreign Intelligence Agency: Report -- IBTimes
Forget Pacifism! Japan Reestablishes Fearsome Foreign Intelligence Service -- Sputnik
Japanese Bond? Tokyo toys with creating MI6-style spy agency -- RT
Japan's Intelligence Reform Inches Forward -- Stratfor
The Legacy of WWII on Japan's Intelligence Apparatus -- Startfor

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