Politics
Japan Opens Its First Postwar Intelligence Agency, and Beijing's Objection Becomes the Story
The National Intelligence Agency began operating on 31 July, the first foreign intelligence body Japan has had since the war, following the passage of its establishing act and a cabinet decision on 24 July. Chinese party-affiliated media had already attacked the plan as a revival of the wartime Special Higher Police. In the threads the agency itself was treated as overdue and under-resourced, and the sharpness of Beijing's response was read as confirmation that it was worth doing.
