PoliticsJapan's new intelligence bureau: The costly price of a security pivot

The article portrays Japan’s National Intelligence Bureau, inaugurated on July 31, as an institutional pillar of remilitarization. It says the bureau was advanced through a rapid legislative process despite protests, while record defense spending is being financed through debt, tax increases and cuts to lower-priority social programs, adding pressure on Japan’s strained finances and households.

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