The Special Assault Team (特殊急襲部隊, Tokushu Kyūshū Butai) is a police tactical unit in major Japanese prefectural police departments which are supervised by the National Police Agency.
The SAT is a national-level counter-terrorism asset, who co-operate with territorial-level Anti-Firearms Squads and Counter-NBC Terrorism Squads. Most information on the unit has been confidential, its existence officially revealed only in 1996. The SAT is officially known in Japanese as simply Special Unit (特殊部隊, Tokushu Butai) and individual teams officially take the name of the Metropolitan or Prefectural police departments to which they are assigned; an example would be Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Special Unit (警視庁特殊部隊, Keishicho Tokushu Butai, Metropolitan Police Department Special Unit) for the SAT unit assigned to the Tokyo Metropolitan Area.
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