海底电缆支撑着日本的经济、通信和国防体系。2025年1月，一艘货轮因涉嫌切断波罗的海的通信电缆而在瑞典卡尔斯克鲁纳附近被扣押，当时一艘瑞典海岸警卫队船只正在对其进行监视。日本也面临着类似的海底电缆安全问题。
Submarine cables underpin the country’s economy, communications and defense A Swedish Coast Guard vessel monitors the bulk carrier Vezhen off Karlskrona, Sweden, in January 2025, after the ship was seized in connection with severed telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea. Japan faces similar concerns over its undersea cables.
随着高市早苗首相第二次改组内阁，新政府应将保护海底电缆列为优先事项。这些电缆不仅是日本的关键基础设施，对与日本有往来和贸易往来的各国而言同样至关重要。鉴于问题的复杂性，保护这些电缆需要政府各部门通力协作。
| TT News Agency / via REUTERS With the launch of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s second reshuffled Cabinet, her administration should make protecting Japan’s undersea cables a priority. These cables are critical infrastructure not only for Japan but for the countries with which it communicates and does business. Given the scale of the challenge, protecting them will require a “whole-of-government” approach.
不过实施起来可能并不容易。由于海底电缆相关事务涉及多个部门和多位部长，或许有必要临时设立一名“海底电缆事务特别部长”，专门负责处理此事。
This might be more difficult than it sounds. Because the issue of submarine cables is divided between multiple agencies and a handful of ministers, it may even require the temporary creation of a “special minister for undersea cables” who can devote his or her full attention to the matter.