The Japanese Ministry of Defense will create a new ground-based electronic intelligence center that will improve its “listening” system in China. According to the local newspaper Sankey Shimbun, the center will be located at the entrance to the Straits of Korea on Fukue Island, west of Nagasaki Prefecture. His tasks will include intercepting signals from airplanes and ships in the East China Sea zone,
ITAR-TASS reports
.A new intelligence center is being created in response to the constant strengthening of China’s military power — the country has been increasing military spending 19 years in a row. The initiative is dictated by the fact that in recent times, the PRC has stepped up its activities in the East China Sea, where it is engaged in gas field research. Often, Chinese warships, submarines and airplanes appear near the exclusive economic zone of Japan, reports
RIA Novosti .
The center already has a radar station that records the movements of Chinese aircraft and calculates the trajectory of the missile flight.