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Japan needs to reconsider its decades-old "defense only" policy and become prepared to strike first to ward off attack from existing and new threats, an influential think-tank said Wednesday.
The government should also form a central intelligence agency to cope with an increasingly complex global security situation, the Japan Forum on International Relations said in a report handed to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2005

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