{"id":225728,"date":"2026-03-17T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/japan-to-allow-proactive-cyber-defense-from-october-1st-the-register\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T12:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:10:17","slug":"japan-to-allow-proactive-cyber-defense-from-october-1st-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/japan-to-allow-proactive-cyber-defense-from-october-1st-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan to allow \u2018proactive cyber-defense\u2019 from October 1st \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/18\/japan_proactive_cyber_defense_enabled\/\">Japan to allow \u2018proactive cyber-defense\u2019 from October 1st \u2022 The Register<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/18\/japan_proactive_cyber_defense_enabled\/\">https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/18\/japan_proactive_cyber_defense_enabled\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-17 22:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theregister.com\">www.theregister.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s government yesterday decided to allow its Self-Defense Force to conduct offensive cyber-operations, starting on October 1st.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara yesterday used his afternoon briefing to explain the government believes the time is right to allow offensive ops because online the nation faces \u201cthe most complicated national security environment\u201d since World War II, and because \u201csociety as a whole is proceeding with digitalization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe threat from cyberattacks are having a huge impact on people\u2019s lives and economic activities,\u201d he added. \u201cThis is quite an important threat to national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Japan will therefore devise regulations that make it possible to enact the \u201cproactive cyber-defense\u201d actions that legislation passed last year foreshadowed.<\/p>\n<p>Kihara said a government cyber-management committee will have the power to approve or deny applications to commence cyber-ops. If authorized, Japan\u2019s police and SDF will \u201cattack and disable\u201d infrastructure used to run cyberattacks, while working to ensure citizens\u2019 privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s armed forces are called the \u201cSelf-Defense Forces\u201d due to Clause 9 of the constitution Japan adopted in 1946, in which the nation renounced participation in war or developing the capacity to wage it. The practical effect of the constitution was to ban Japan\u2019s participation in any military aggression. In the decades since, Japan has re-interpreted the clause in ways that allow it to participate in military activities that contribute to its defense.<\/p>\n<p>Deciding to conduct offensive cyber-operations is therefore further evolution of Japan\u2019s position.<\/p>\n<p>The regulations enabling Japan to hack back will allow attacks to commence from October 1st.<\/p>\n<p>Many other nations possess offensive cyber capabilities. Think tank The International&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/18\/japan_proactive_cyber_defense_enabled\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan to allow \u2018proactive cyber-defense\u2019 from October 1st \u2022 The Register https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/18\/japan_proactive_cyber_defense_enabled\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-17&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2026\/03\/18\/leonardo_ai_cyber_kaiju_battle.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225730,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225728\/revisions\/225730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}