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As an old saying in both Chinese and Japanese goes, "Bad deeds travel a thousand miles." This means that wrongdoing will eventually spread far and wide, becoming known to all.
Ignoring strong opposition at home and abroad, the Japanese government has officially inaugurated the "National Intelligence Bureau." Dubbed by some Japanese media outlets and opinion leaders as a postwar institution close to the "Tokko", or Special Higher Police - which targeted critics of the Japanese government ahead of World War II (WWII) - the new bureau has been met with widespread criticism and protests ever since its establishment on July 31.
What exactly is Japan's "National Intelligence Bureau"? What is the background of its organizational structure and leadership? What impact could its deep entanglement with US intelligence agencies have on regional security? And what strategic ambitions of the Japanese authorities lie behind its creation? In this story, the Global Times takes a closer look at this newly established intelligence agency and examines the dangerous attempts by Japan's right-wing forces to break free from the postwar order and revive a militarist path.
Striking a historical nerve
On July 31, Japan held the first meeting of its new National Intelligence Council chaired by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, and launched its secretariat, the National Intelligence Bureau, reported The Mainichi on the same day.
Although the full details have not been made public, the meeting was believed to have confirmed plans to draw up the first-ever strategy to guide intelligence-gathering and analysis activities, as well as to move forward with consideration of a "anti-espionage" bill aimed at countering covert operations by foreign powers, NHK reported the same day.
The bureau's launch date has struck a historical nerve in some Asian countries, victims of Japanese aggression during WWII.
Hiroshi Onishi, vice president of the Japan-China Friendship Association, told the Global Times that Japan's decision to establish the body on July 31 is a date that evokes memories of the notorious Unit 731 bacterial warfare squad of imperialist Japan, and is bound to remind people in China and other Asian countries of that dark history.
The Japanese government should consider how this timing may be perceived by people in other countries, especially in China, he said.
Under a law to establish the National Intelligence Council, passed by the Japanese Diet in May 2026, Japan is building a new intelligence system centered on its National Intelligence Bureau.
According to a July 31 story by the Xinhua News Agency, the bureau, which integrates intelligence functions from Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Justice and the National Police Agency, had been described by the public as the "command center" of intelligence operations.
Why did Japan establish this bureau? Establishing this bureau enables the Japanese government to "make sound decisions based on higher-quality, timely information amid today's complex and challenging international environment," The Japan Times quoted Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara as saying on July 31.
However, to some Chinese scholars in Japanese studies, explanations like this are little more than a cover for the current right-wing Takaichi administration's real agenda.
"Of course, the Japanese authorities need to put forward some seemingly plausible justification; otherwise, they would have no way to explain it to the public," Da Zhigang, a research fellow at the Institute of Northeast Asian Studies of the Heilongjiang Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times.
Da said that the Takaichi administration's push for the reform of the intelligence system is directly tied to Japan's military expansion, its drive to strengthen military capabilities and constitutional revision.
"The real purpose is still institutional expansion - to make the intelligence system more compatible with, and better serve, the series of military expansion and geopolitical strategies Japan is now advancing," he noted.
Adding uncertainty
The National Intelligence Bureau largely inherits the roughly 730 personnel and functions of its predecessor, the Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office, with around 30 new posts being authorized to be added, according to The Japan Times.
The bureau reports directly to the Japanese prime minister, and has centralized intelligence functions that were previously dispersed across multiple ministries and agencies under Japan's cabinet office, which overturns Japan's postwar decentralized intelligence architecture, Da said.
"Compared with the system of mutual checks and constraints designed under Japan's pacifist constitution after the WWII, the country's current intelligence apparatus is highly centralized," Da told the Global Times. "Constraints that were once built into the Japanese constitution, which has set forth pacifism, now seem to be gone."
If the bureau is a new engine of centralization in Japan's intelligence system, then Kazuya Hara can be called the engine's first operator. According to media reports, Hara, the bureau's first director, joined Japan's National Police Agency in 1990, and had also served at Japan's embassies in Russia and the US. In 2019, Hara became executive secretary to the then prime minister Shinzo Abe, and in 2023 he began serving as director of Japan's cabinet intelligence.
In May, shortly after the legislation was passed, Hara reportedly made a special trip to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters. FBI Director Kash Patel said in a post on X that Japan's initiative would "greatly enhance our shared partnership," and said he looks "forward to fully supporting them and working with them on cybersecurity, counterintelligence, espionage and counterterrorism to strengthen our cooperation," Japan's Jiji Press reported on May 8.
Moreover, according to a July 13 report by The New York Times, during the process of setting up the bureau, Japan had "privately approached partners such as the United States, Australia and Germany in recent months for advice on technology, staffing and priorities."
"Intelligence officials from the United States, Japan's main security ally, have offered input on cyberdefense systems and methods of countering industrial espionage, according to two people familiar with the conversations," the NYT report said.
A tightly bound intelligence alliance is adding multiple layers of uncertainty to the security landscape in Northeast Asia. Da said that the bureau's establishment would amplify Japan's intelligence-driven disruptive power in bilateral and multilateral geopolitical interactions in Northeast Asia, while its deep entanglement with intelligence networks beyond the region could further intensify the compound shock to the regional security order.
"For countries around Northeast Asia, the costs of social contact and other forms of interaction will rise," Da said.
The establishment and operational launch of a brand-new intelligence agency means that Japan is already making advance intelligence preparations for a potential war, Lü Yaodong, a research fellow from the Institute of Japanese Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times.
East Asian countries, as well as all peace-loving forces around the world committed to safeguarding global peace, must remain highly vigilant, Lü said.
Accelerating Japan's remilitarization agenda
China has a time-honored saying: "Those who persist in wrongdoing will bring destruction upon themselves."
Less than two weeks after its launch, Japan's National Intelligence Bureau has already come under broad criticism. What it has triggered is not only questions about the functions of a new agency, but also deep concern over whether Japan is drifting away from its postwar path of peace and back toward militarism.
One major criticism is that the intelligence power in Japan has become overly concentrated, while checks and balances remain inadequate. The law to create the National Intelligence Council, which governs the bureau, "does not include any mechanism to oversee the activities of intelligence agencies" despite concerns, as reported in a May 29 editorial piece by The Mainichi.
For many people in Japan, another concern is that the new intelligence agency lacks institutional safeguards to protect citizens' rights. On May 27, the day Japan's Upper House passed the law, large numbers of people reportedly spontaneously gathered outside Japan's Diet, holding banners reading "Stop revising the constitution and expanding the military" and "Oppose the National Intelligence Bureau bill that will monitor citizens."
It is completely unfeasible for Japan to set up an intelligence agency detached from corresponding restraints, said Makoto Ito, a Japanese lawyer and the director of the Japan Institute of Constitutional Law.
If the bureau and related measures such as the proposed anti-espionage law are allowed to push forward on their own, outside a democratic oversight framework, the risks will only be magnified, Ito told the Global Times.
More concerning still, some observers pointed out that the establishment of the National Intelligence Bureau is not an isolated move, but a key link in the Takaichi administration's systematic effort to break free from the postwar order and push Japan further down a path of rearmament.
Japan is strengthening intelligence centralization through the creation of the bureau, while also accelerating the deployment of Tomahawk cruise missiles and conducting live-fire drills, said Lü. This indicates that Japan is advancing its military expansion strategy on two fronts at once: intelligence gathering and actual combat strike capability. He criticized these moves as not only a serious shock to the regional security landscape, but also an open challenge to the international order of peace.
The Takaichi administration is devoting energy to intelligence-system reform precisely when the public urgently needs relief from persistent inflation and a rising cost of living, and that these reforms directly serve Japan's military expansion, force buildup, constitutional revision and even efforts to undermine the country's Three Non-Nuclear Principles, said Da.
"In fact, this also shows that Japan's right wing has now reached a stage where it simply no longer cares about people's livelihoods," he said.
The establishment of Japan's National Intelligence Bureau is "another negative development in Japan's domestic and international policies on security," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on July 31, the bureau's launch date.
"For some time, Japan has been accelerating its remilitarization agenda under the pretext of national security and external threat. Such moves have put the regional peace and stability at risk and drawn widespread concern across the international community," Mao warned.
"Those running the Japanese government need to learn lessons from history and act prudently," she noted.
。 在各种健身房“跑路”新闻频发之前，已经有不少人开始“极简运动”。 “三年瑜伽馆、两年健身房后，我又回归了不花钱的运动方式。
B | ”当有趣运动和各色穿搭频繁跃进视野，花式挑动人们运动热情的同时，一种强调删繁就简、回归初心并追求低成本的运动理念正在低调流行。 “极简运动”，不买课不办卡，更不购入多余服饰和装备，只有必需补剂和基础衣物即可展开每日训练。
C | 并不是刻意避免“差生文具多”的诟病，眼前的“极简运动”更多透着一种千帆过尽后的成熟心态，即渡过健身新鲜期后，不再依靠外部刺激支持运动，而是向内探索，从最常用的一物一件中重新找回健身自由。 一直以来，运动都被人们当作枯燥无味的生活解药，通过购置新服饰新装备和解锁新场地提高积极性。而极简运动者们如何面对精简后的“枯燥”，大家给出的答案出奇一致： 当你不再对“运动”这件事抱有执念，放弃仪式感后把健身这件事彻底融进日常作息，运动便不再是负担和任务。
D | 在更少包袱和压力的状态下更多关注对身体的掌控感，反而让运动自然而然地一天天持续了下来。 值得注意的一点是，看似容易实现的“极简运动”也并非适合所有人。
E | 在删繁就简的过程中，如何根据自身所需调整“极简清单”，仍需要以成熟完备的健身知识和安全意识为前提。任何一次错误估计自己能力的尝试，都有可能酿成不可挽回的悲剧。 一、极简运动，怎么舒服怎么来 已经在健身房混迹多年的ZiYu，最近把自己没用完的健身卡和所有九成新的训练鞋、运动服打包挂上了闲鱼。 不是换工作搬家，也不是受伤练不动了，用她自己的话来说是给运动做做减法： “记得前几年把家扔到家徒四壁，过极简生活的日本姑娘吗？我这个健身爱好也急需断舍离。
F | ” ZiYu告诉精练GymSquare，自己被前阵子算的一笔账惊呆了。近一年来花在健身上的会费近7000块，瑜伽馆2000多块买了十次只去过三回，偶尔和朋友去其他场馆体验，每次100～200块也有至少5次以上，再加上购置健身服饰的花费，一年在运动上花掉两万多块只是起步价。 “最重要的是有一半都因为太忙没时间去，衣服太多轮不上穿，太浪费了。” 于是，狠下心卖掉手头不必要的物品，只保留最低限度的健身装备，成了ZiYu减少累赘，让自己轻装上阵的方式。 决心给运动做减法的人并不在少数。最近开始探索自由训练的周锐告诉精练GymSquare，自己把还剩一年半的私教卡转卖，并顺手停掉了所有付费运动app会员。 起因是无意在社交平台刷到了附近很便宜的社区健身房，和传统健身房一样齐全的史密斯、龙门架等设施，甚至还有免费的智慧体检一体机和体质检测机，只象征性收费单次2元，月卡25元。 “健身环境安静舒适就在楼下，价格约等于不要钱，还不用担心倒闭。” 在迎着消费主义大潮逆流而上的“极简运动”中，更多人选择了离开健身房，宅家进行更便捷的线上运动，在免费提供线上教练的列表里，不乏ACE健身私教认证、运动康复矫正专家，对追求“极简”的运动者来说，更是练到就是赚到。 善于断舍离，善于发掘身边潜在运动资源，几乎是每个极简运动者的必备素养。事实上，与其说省钱是目的，不如说是“极简运动”的副产品。 在越来越多健身者开始领悟到运动的核心在“动”，而不是搞军备竞赛的当下，极简运动者们真正追求的，其实是能在健身这条路上轻装上阵，走得更远。 二、去繁就简，是为了“可持续运动” 众所周知，开始运动很难，而放弃运动往往只在一瞬间： 下班赶去健身房，练完拉伸、洗澡、吹头，一套下来再赶回家已是深夜，还错过了末班车；鼓起勇气去新开的瑜伽馆，站上体测仪三分钟下来，被告知自己高低肩、长短腿、头前引，还没开始练身材焦虑先拉满。
G | 以及让社恐难顶的健身房氛围和私教推销，“上班已经很累，不想再有健身式社交了”，甚至有不少网友表示，自己为了避免被推销续费不去上最后一节私教课。
H | 当原本应该带来放松体验的运动成为一种负担，“极简运动”就变得十分必要。
I | 将流程复杂的运动融入日常生活场景，让爬楼、通勤拉伸、睡前冥想变成了极高性价比的运动方式。翻看网友分享的“极简运动”教程，洗脸后握着毛巾两端举过头顶，顺便拉伸整个上半身、边下蹲边刷牙，虽然感觉很奇怪但能很自然地缓解腰部僵硬和酸痛等方法大受欢迎。 对于没时间去健身房的打工人来说，精简后的运动能随时随地开展，无需担忧日晒雨淋，更不用考虑出门穿搭，极大减少了精神内耗。 而极简运动的真正价值，更体现在找到喜欢的项目之后，最大限度地发挥已有设备的价值并磨练技术本身。 健身越来越简单，让动作返璞归真的运动方式，往往备受极简运动者喜爱：练臀就做好硬拉，深蹲，臀推；练背就做好引体向上，划船，下拉；练胸就做好俯卧撑，卧推。 在极简运动中，一次标准有质量的动作练习>完成一系列花式动作。在对基础和细节的追求中，相信滴水穿石的功夫。 极简运动者信奉，即便每天只拉一个单杠，只举5次哑铃，只跳10个绳，日久天长看到肌肉力量的提升都能促使你体验到运动的快乐。 当越来越多人不再把运动看作是负担和任务，通过去繁就简回归身体感受，运动便不再是潮流品，而是生活的一部分。 尤其在“长期主义”、“可持续”的概念频繁被人们提及的当下，“极简运动”无疑是一种更具体、更长效的实践方式。 三、极简虽好，但有些环节不能减 “运不运动和办不办卡、买什么器材设备服装无关，运动只在于四个字：现在就去。” 励志鸡汤固然有用，但对于严谨的运动者来说，“极简运动”并非适合所有人，简化运动实际上是有条件的。
J | 极简的第一步是要学会正确有序地脱离教练。在日常健身房训练中，教练的存在不仅是帮忙擦器械，搬片，数数，同时还需要观察学员动作甚至情绪，并安排后续纠正措施。而“极简运动”往往意味着，训练者自己足够了解自身能力，并具备经验制定训练计划。
K | 所以开始极简运动前，至少需要训练者规律记录自己每次私教课的内容，记录练的重量，做了多少组，每组多少个，每个动作都有很详细的文字讲解，久而久之，掌握训练节奏，直到可以给自己做训练计划。 除此之外，掌握适当的健身理论知识，并了解饮食怎样做到营养摄入全面，才能让“极简运动”产生训练效果，而非佛系躺平的随心所欲。 所谓“健身先健脑”，毕竟无论是常规训练还是极简运动，绝对不是只学会一套动作，而是要明白底层逻辑。 而在尝试“极简运动”过程中，如何保证安全性，则是健身小白和老手共同需要思考的问题。新手对自己的重量不熟悉，容易错误评估风险；老手更容易盲目自信，在无保护措施下挑战大重量时面临意外状况。 运动要在精简中追求高效、自由，更需要关注哪些环节是无论如何都不能减去的。
L | 归根结底，运动始终应该是一件让人在力量中感受快乐的事。就像在一本讲述如何逃离都市金钱生活围困的书籍《做二休五》中所描述： 每天6点起床做广播体操的日本隐居男青年，通过最简单的做操与身体交流，“早啊，膝关节！”“大腿二头肌，早安！” 极简运动，不仅是对盲目推销办卡买产品的抵抗，而且通过这样简单的举动让自己与世界、与他人、与自己的连结变得更真切、更坚实、更鲜活。
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