Japan plans to enhance its surveillance and regulatory measures to prevent foreign interference in elections.
The Cabinet Secretariat's National Cybersecurity Office will play a key role in identifying problems that must be addressed to create a system for dealing with threats in an integrated manner.
In last month's Upper House election, foreign actors were suspected to be behind the spread of disinformation on social media.
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