Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Calls for Enhanced Intelligence Collection Capabilities
According to a March 3 report by "Mainichi Shimbun," on March 3, Koike Takanori, head of the LDP's Policy Research Committee, met with Prime Minister Hayashi Sanae at the Prime Minister's Office and submitted a proposal to strengthen the government's intelligence (information collection and analysis) capabilities.
Koike proposed establishing an intelligence command center with the National Intelligence Agency as its core, which would have "comprehensive coordination authority" to collect and comprehensively analyze information from various ministries and agencies.
In addition to establishing a platform to share information collected and analyzed by agencies such as the National Police Agency, he also emphasized the need to prioritize enhancing the ability to intercept communications and collect information. He called for the establishment of a legislative expert meeting before summer.
The LDP plans to submit proposals based on this plan again to the government this summer.
After submitting his proposal to Hayashi Sanae, Koike told reporters, "I want to firmly enhance our external intelligence collection capabilities or counter-intelligence capabilities."
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