Japan To Set Up National Security Center
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The bills call for regular meetings of Foreign and Defense Ministers and the Chief Cabinet Secretary chaired by the Prime Minister. It also seeks to set up a national security office on the model of the U.S. National Security Council, reports the NHK public broadcaster.
At the first meeting of the parliamentary panel on Monday, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga urged the members to get the bills enacted as soon as possible as the security environment surrounding Japan was becoming increasingly unstable.
He said it was vital that regular forums with the Prime Minister be established to discuss security issues and responses as such forums would enable the Premier to take strong political leadership on national security.
Suga said the head of the national security office would be in charge of administrative affairs, whereas the chief of the command center would advise the Prime Minister directly and the two would closely coordinate in supporting him.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will decide whether or not to assign one person to both posts, which will be open to the private sector also, Suga said.
Addressing an annual review of Self-Defense Force personnel in Asaka in Saitama prefecture on Sunday, Abe said he planned to proceed with building a legal structure that suited the difficult security environment around his country.
He said Japan needed to constantly pursue the best possible security policies and the control tower would be the proposed National Security Council.
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