Japan To Set Up National Security Center

A Lower House panel of the Japanese Parliament on Monday began deliberating bills aimed at establishing a national security command center in the context of the security environment around the country getting increasingly unstable.

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.

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