Japan creates a centralized intelligence system: Should Asia be worried?

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  Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.

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  This is The Point.

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  Japan's first centralized spy agency since World War II.

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  On July 31, Tokyo launched a surprise overhaul of its security apparatus, transforming its legacy Cabinet Intelligence

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  and Research Office, or CSIRO, into a new centralized structure built around two bodies,

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  the National Intelligence Council and the National Intelligence Bureau.

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  For decades, Japan has relied heavily on American eyes and ears.

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  Now it seems to have taken intelligence into its own hands and things are moving very quickly.

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  So how to understand this radical shift?

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  Does this move constitute another break from Japan's pacifist constitution?

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  Should the region be worried?

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  Welcome to this edition of The Point with me, Liu Xin, an opinion show coming to you from Beijing.

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  I'm pleased to be joined from Nanjing, capital of East China's Jiangsu province,

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  Professor Zhang Yun from the School of International Relations at Nanjing University.

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  From Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia by Peter Chang, former Deputy Director of the Institute of China Studies

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  at the University of Malaya and also Research Associate of the Malaysia-China Friendship Association.

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  And from Brisbane, Australia by Professor Warwick Powell, a young professor at Queensland University of Technology.

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  The warmest welcome to all of you gentlemen.

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  So let's take a look at this new...

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  Now, Japan's intelligence work is traditionally scattered across five different ministries.

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