Japan will set up an interministerial team to prevent cyberterrorism and protect its planned "cybergovernment" from attack, government officials said Wednesday.
The decision was made at a meeting of a security task force of a government panel on information technology strategy, they said.
The team will be set up in fiscal 2002, which begins April 1, so it will be in place for the launch of the cybergovernment in fiscal 2003. The cybergovernment will let people access various public services online, the officials said.