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What is Japan’s new intelligence agency, and why is Tokyo building it?

· By Marthe van der Wolf
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Japan is setting up its first centralised intelligence agency since World War II to try to modernise its defence capabilities against spies, foreign interference and other attacks from foreign adversaries.

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