Japan has built up a large intelligence network that has China as one of its main targets, says Duowei News, a US-based Chinese political news outlet.
Since May this year, China has detained four alleged Japanese spies. According to reports this month, a Japanese woman in her 50s running a language school in Tokyo has been held in Shanghai since June, while another man in his 60s in Japan was also held on spy charges. Late last month, Chinese authorities also revealed that two other Japanese citizens had been arrested on suspicion of spying.
Duowei claims that Japan has been building its intelligence network for years and that reform efforts ramped up after Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe returned to office for his second stint in 2012. Abe now has plans to cultivate more espionage experts, build more intelligence training agencies and develop reserve personnel, Duowei added.
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