the Criminal Affairs Bureau; predecessor of the Community Safety Bureau) in 1962 because of the expression indicating a high number of deaths from traffic accidents. Security Bureau The is in charge of the internal security affairs, such as counter-intelligence, counter-terrorism or disaster response. (Direct reporting divisions) After the 1996 Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Peru, the Security Bureau established the Terrorism Response Team where officers liaise with foreign law enforcement and intelligence agencies when Japanese interests or nationals are in danger. It was later reformed to the Terrorism Response Team - Tactical Wing (TRT-2) for Overseas in order to meet with demands to coordinate with foreign police forces in assisting them whenever a terror attack has happened. Info-Communications Bureau The supervises police communications systems and combat with cyberterrorism. Local Branch Bureaus and Departments Regional Police Bureaus There are six , each responsible for a number of prefectures as below: Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata, and Fukushima Prefectures Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa, Niigata, Yamanashi, Nagano, and Shizuoka Prefectures Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Gifu, Aichi, and Mie Prefectures Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo, Nara, and Wakayama Prefectures Tottori, Shimane, Okayama, Hiroshima, and Yamaguchi Prefectures Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime, and Kochi Prefectures Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki, Kagoshima, and Okinawa Prefectures They are located in major cities of each geographic region. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and Hokkaido Prefectural Police Headquarters are excluded from the jurisdiction of regional police bureaus. Headed by a Senior Commissioner, each regional police bureaus exercises necessary control and supervision over and provides support services to prefectural police within its jurisdiction, under the authority and orders of NPA's Commissioner General. Attached to each Regional Police Bureaus is a Regional Police School which provides police personnel with education and training required of staff officers as well as other necessary education and training. Police Communications Departments Metropolitan Tokyo and the island of Hokkaidō are excluded from the regional jurisdictions and are run more autonomously than other local forces, in the case of Tokyo, because of its special urban situation, and of Hokkaidō, because of its distinctive geography. The National Police Agency maintains police communications divisions in these two areas to handle any coordination needed between national and local forces. In other area, Police Communications Departments are established within each Regional Police Bureaus. Independent Communications Departments Subsidiary Organs See also Police services of the Empire of Japan Law enforcement in Japan Public