Command
The DIH is under the jurisdiction of the Joint Staff Council and is controlled by the Defense Intelligence Committee, which is made up of the heads of the JGSDF, JMSDF and JASDF with the Joint Staff Council chairman alongside the Japanese Defense Minister and Senior Vice-Minister of Defense.
Command of the DIH was given directly to the Japanese Defense Minister on March 2006.
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