TheNational Police Agency Security Bureau (警察庁警備局,Keisatsu-chō Keibi-kyoku) is a bureau of theNational Police Agency in charge of national-levelinternal security affairs.^[1][2]

It supervises the Security Bureau and thePublic Security Bureau of theTokyo Metropolitan Police Department, andSecurity departments of other Prefectural police headquarters for those issues.^[3][4]

The current chief of the Security Bureau isHiroki Tsutsui [ja].

Organization of the Security Bureau is as follows:^[5]

The Security Department (警備部,Keibi-bu) is charged withinternalcounter-terrorism, counteringcybercrime and surveillance of potentially threatening groups, organisations, and social phenomena.^[4] It's also tasked with providing close protection requirements to VIPs.^[6]

• 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

The Foreign Affairs and Intelligence Department (外事情報部,Gaiji-jōhō-bu) is charged withcounter-intelligence, and international counter-terrorism.^[7] It has a unit known as YAMA, which has access to classified information based on intercepts from various communications facilities.^[8]

• 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

The Security Operations Department (警備運用部,Keibi-unyō-bu) replaced the former Security Division (警備課,Keibi-ka) in 2019.^[9] 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)

Prospective SB officers are trained at the National Police Academy in intelligence gathering techniques.^[10]

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• 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.

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