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Japan Gets Into the Spying Game

Japan Gets Into the Spying Game

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Feb 22, 2011
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For the first time since World War II, Japan has moved to establish a secret foreign intelligence service to spy on China and North Korea and to gather information to prevent terrorist attacks, according to a leaked United States diplomatic cable obtained by WikiLeaks.

The top secret spy unit was created under the wing of Japan's peak intelligence agency…

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