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The National Police Agency Security Bureau (警察庁警備局, Keisatsu-chō Keibi-kyoku) is a bureau of the National Police Agency in charge of national-level internal security affairs.

It supervises the Security Bureau and the Public Security Bureau of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, and Security departments of other Prefectural police headquarters for those issues.

The current chief of the Security Bureau is Yūji Sakoda [ja].

Organization

Organization of the Security Bureau is as follows:

Security Department

The Security Department (警備部, Keibi-bu) is charged with internal counter-terrorism, countering cybercrime and surveillance of potentially threatening groups, organisations, and social phenomena. It's also tasked with providing close protection requirements to VIPs.

• Security Planning Division (警備企画課, Keibi Kikaku-ka)
  • Security Coordination Office
  • Image Data Analysis Office
  • Intelligence Coordination Analysis Office
  • Crisis Management Office
  • Cyber Attack Analysis Center
• Public Security Division (公安課, Kōan-ka)
  • Intelligence Countermeasure Office
  • Far-Left Countermeasure Office
  • Far-Right Countermeasure Office
  • Special Organized Crime Countermeasure Office

Foreign Affairs and Intelligence Department

The Foreign Affairs and Intelligence Department (外事情報部, Gaiji-jōhō-bu) is charged with counter-intelligence, and international counter-terrorism. It has a unit known as YAMA, which has access to classified information based on intercepts from various communications facilities.

• Foreign Affairs Division (外事課, Gaiji-ka)
  • Foreign Affairs Technical Investigation Office
  • Foreign Affairs Research Office
  • Foreign Affairs Special Case Countermeasure Office
  • Unauthorized Export Countermeasure Office
• Counter International Terrorism Division (国際テロリズム対策課, Kokusai Terorizumu Taisaku-ka)
  • Counter International Terrorism Countermeasure Office

Security Operations Department

The Security Operations Department (警備運用部, Keibi-unyō-bu) replaced the former Security Division (警備課, Keibi-ka) in 2019. It's mandated with security and protecting VIPs (1st Division) and response to large-scale disaster or terrorism (2nd Division).

• First Security Operations Division (警備第一課, Keibi Daiichi-ka)
• Second Security Operations Division (警備第二課, Keibi Daini-ka)

Training

Prospective SB officers are trained at the National Police Academy in intelligence gathering techniques.

References

1. Aftergood, Steven (12 October 2000). "FAS: Security Bureau". www.fas.org. fas.org. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
2. Davis & Gustafson (2013), p. 185. sfnp error: no target: CITEREFDavisGustafson2013 (help)
3. National Police Agency Police History Compilation Committee, ed. (1977). Japan post-war police history (in Japanese). Japan Police Support Association.
4. ^ National Police Agency. 警察庁警備局 自由と繁栄の礎を築く (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-09-24. Retrieved 2016-05-29.
5. "ORGANIZATION & RESOURCES (POLICE OF JAPAN 2014)" (PDF). National Police Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-05-13. Retrieved 2015-02-23.
6. https://www.stimson.org/sites/default/files/file-attachments/Tatsumi_%20Japan%27s_Security_Policy_Infrastructure_Final_Version.pdf
7. National Police Agency. 警察庁外事情報部 「外からの脅威」との闘い (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-09-24. Retrieved 2016-05-29.
8. Williams (2021), p. 8.
9. "災害・対テロで「警備運用部」 １５年ぶり新部 警察庁が組織改正案（1/2ページ） - 産経ニュース". Archived from the original on 2019-04-02. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
10. Andrew Oros (2008-06-09). "Japan's Growing Intelligence Capabilities" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-20. Retrieved 2019-05-23.

Bibliography

• Davies, Philip H.J.; Gustafson, Kristian, eds. (2013). Intelligence Elsewhere: Spies and Espionage Outside the Anglosphere. Georgetown University Press. ISBN 978-1589019560.
• Samuels, Richard J. (2019). Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1501741586.
• Williams, Brad (2021). Japanese Foreign Intelligence and Grand Strategy: From the Cold War to the Abe Era. Georgetown University Press. ISBN 978-1647120634.

v t e Japanese intelligence agencies
Cabinet Intelligence Council	Joint Intelligence Council
Cabinet Office	Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office
Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Intelligence and Analysis Service International Counter-Terrorism Intelligence Collection Unit
Ministry of Defense	Defense Intelligence Headquarters Intelligence Security Command (JSDF) Military Intelligence Command JGSDF Fleet Intelligence Command JMSDF Air Intelligence Wing JASDF
Police organizations	Security Bureau (NPA) Public Security Bureau (TMPD) Security departments (PPH)
Ministry of Justice	Public Security Intelligence Agency
Japan Coast Guard	Security and Intelligence Division
Ministry of Finance	Research Division
Defunct agencies	Home Ministry - Special Higher Police, Foreign Affairs Division Imperial Japanese Army - Imperial Japanese Army General Staff (G-2), Kempeitai, Tokumu Kikan Imperial Japanese Navy - Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff (3rd Section), Tokkeitai Rokuhara (feudal period)

• Domestic intelligence agencies
• Japanese intelligence agencies
• Police units of the National Police Agency (Japan)