As a core member of the intelligence community made up of Japan’s intelligence organizations, the PSIA provides the Cabinet Intelligence Committee established under the Cabinet and the Joint Intelligence Committee, as well as relevant organizations including the Office of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet Secretariat with intelligence required for policy-making of the government on a daily basis.
In addition, the PSIA responds to requests for intelligence from the National Security Council and the National Security Secretariat which supports the Council.

 
 

 Based on the Subversive Activities Prevention Act, the PSIA conducts investigations on organizations that seek to achieve political objectives through violence, and when the PSIA finds that an organization should be subject to controls, it requests the Public Security Examination Commission, which is responsible for examining and making decisions regarding the control of such organizations, to designate that the activities of the organization be restricted, or that it be dissolved.
 In addition, under the Act on the Control of Organizations, the PSIA investigates organizations that committed indiscriminate mass murder in the past and, when deemed necessary, requests the Public Security Examination Commission to take a surveillance disposition or a recurrence preventation disposition.
 The PSIA has been working to shed light on the status of the activities of Aum Shinrikyo, an organization that has been under surveillance disposition since February 2000, by receiving mandatory reports on the current status of the organization and its activities as well as entering the organization’s facilities and inspecting them as needed. The period of surveillance disposition was renewed for the seventh time on January 6, 2021, based on the request by the Director-General of the PSIA.

■Subversive Activities Prevention Act


■Act on the Control of Organizations Which Have Committed Acts of Indiscriminate Mass Murder