PoliticsJapan's new intelligence body: A step toward a 'security state'

The article argues that Japan’s main danger is not that it has already restored its prewar system. Instead, the concern is the gradual weakening of safeguards that emerged after the war. These include dispersed political power, military restraint and vigilance toward secretive state machinery. Japan’s new intelligence body is presented as part of a possible movement toward a more security-focused state.

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