Tokyo DispatchJapan, in EnglishThe new Disaster Management Agency is meant to end the bureaucratic silos that have slowed Japan's response to earthquakes, floods and heat. Its main tool for doing so is a recommendation power no agency has ever used.
The Disaster Management Agency, launched on November 2, is meant to keep pre-disaster planning running even while the government responds to a major quake — a gap the Noto Peninsula earthquake exposed.
The government will consider monitoring traffic between parties inside Japan, which the current law leaves untouched, after the prime minister ordered a review of the active cyberdefense law.
The National Cybersecurity Office says it found multiple cases where basic safeguards were missing, and that AI is likely helping attackers find weak systems at scale.
