Spotlight | Japan
PM Takaichi makes intelligence reform top priority thanks to parliamentary majority

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo, on 9 February 2026.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo, on 9 February 2026. © Kyodo/MaxPPP
Her huge victory in the general election has given the prime minister a strong mandate to achieve her ambition of equipping Japan with an intelligence coordination structure and a foreign service. [...]
Reading time 4 minutes Jérémy André
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