By HOU JUNJIE in Tokyo and ZHOU JIN in Beijing |

China Daily |

The establishment of Japan's National Intelligence Bureau, or NIB, is another negative move in Tokyo's domestic and foreign security policies, China's Foreign Ministry said on Friday, with the ministry urging Japanese lawmakers to learn lessons from history and act prudently.

Japan launched the bureau on Friday, marking the establishment of the country's first centralized national intelligence system since World War II.

Looking back, Japan's intelligence community paved the way for the country to fully advance militarism and launch wars of aggression, which led to innumerable crimes against its Asian neighbors and Japan's own people, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning.