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New Intelligence Luminary

A specialist in relations between the U.S. and Japan, 51-year-old Nobushige Takamizawa is continuing his rise within Japan's intelligence community. [...]

Subscribers only 17.02.2005

Beefing Up Intelligence College

The Kodaira military intelligence academy in the Tokyo region will enroll more students in the 2005-2006 financial year as well [...]

Subscribers only 03.02.2005

Japan & China Team Up

The Japanese government has decided to launch a big offensive against trans-national organized crime.

Subscribers only 20.01.2005

Intelligence Brigade Planned

Japan's Defense Agency intends to shortly form an "intelligence brigade" [...]

Subscribers only 20.01.2005

Yakuzas Move To Switzerland

On Dec. 22, the canton of Zurich froze Sfr61 million [...]

Subscribers only 06.01.2005

How Chinese Threaten Japan

China's young generation of "information warriors" has gone onto the offensive just as Lenovo has bought out the computer division of IBM.

Subscribers only 16.12.2004

Rising Intelligence Star

In mid-November, Takashi Oizumi, boss of Japan's Public Security Investigation Agency (Koancho) requested an urgent meeting with Masahiro Futahashi, the [...]

Subscribers only 16.12.2004

In the past year the CIA has managed to organize the defection of members of North Korea's nomenclatura, often from Japan. That has embarrassed Tokyo because the prime minister is negotiating anew with Kim Jong-il.

Subscribers only 02.12.2004

Did Japanese Revisionism Kill?

The death of Sino-American historian Iris Chang in California on Nov. 11 has raised a lot of questions, not least of which is whether she was murdered.

Subscribers only 18.11.2004

New Spy Satellites

Experts from Japan's Defense Intelligence Headquarters (Johohonbu), which is headed by admiral Fumio Ota, are saying in private that the [...]

Subscribers only 21.10.2004

North Korea Under Watch for Missile Test

For the past ten days Japan's intelligence services have been keeping an eye on the horizon for any sign of [...]

Subscribers only 07.10.2004

Scenario for North Korean Attack

A confidential Japanese report lays down the scenario for a North Korean attack on the country in great detail.

Subscribers only 23.09.2004

New Anti-Terrorist Unit

Japan set up a new anti-terrorist rapid action unit in mid-August. A branch of the anti-terrorist division of the National [...]

Subscribers only 26.08.2004

Mystery Man Who Survived Attack

The Japanese authorities announced on July 7 they had arrested three persons who had tried to kill Takaji Kunimatsu, head [...]

Subscribers only 22.07.2004

Crying Need for Coordination

The question doing the rounds in Gasumigaseki, the government quarter of Tokyo, these days is whether to transform the prime [...]

Subscribers only 08.07.2004

Tokyo Seeks to Foil Beijing

The Japanese military intelligence agencies have been working flat out in recent months to dovetail "oceanographic intelligence."

Subscribers only 24.06.2004

Koancho has Al Qaeda in Gunsights

Last week's arrest in Japan of eight persons suspected of links to Al Qaeda confirmed the existence of "sleeper" Islamic [...]

Subscribers only 10.06.2004

New Special Forces Unit

Trained in anti-guerrilla and anti-terrorist operations, 300 special troops under the command of colonel Araya Taku were set to leave [...]

Subscribers only 27.05.2004

Tokyo - Alcohol And Intelligence

Named chairman last October of the prestigious Japan Foundation that [...]

Subscribers only 13.05.2004

Gaimusho Saves the Iraq Hostages

The saga of Japanese hostages in Iraq has given the foreign ministry's intelligence service a good occasion to prove the [...]

Subscribers only 22.04.2004

New Crisis Management Unit

It has taken the Japanese government no less than 10 years to put a real crisis management system in place.

Subscribers only 08.04.2004

Rise of "Kagemusha"

Fakuda Yasuo, the leading chief-of-staff to Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, has not only become the coordinator of "special affairs" in Japan. He has also emerged as a sort of second prime minister in the light of the Iraq crisis.

Subscribers only 11.03.2004

Japanese Doubts About Iraqi Allies

As the first men from Japan's Air Self-Defense Force set foot in Kuwait and Qatar on Dec. 27, the Japanese government found itself preoccupied by the investigation into the murder of two of its diplomats in Iraq on Nov.

Subscribers only 01.01.2004

State of Alert for Japanese

Japan's anti-terrorism community has been on maximum alert twice in the space of a few days. Al Qaeda threatened to strike at Japanese interests if the prime minister agreed to send self-defense forces to Iraq;

Subscribers only 27.11.2003

Rough Ride for Koancho Boss

Recently named director-general of Japan's counter-espionage service, Machida Yukio is suffering indirectly from the erratic performance of his predecessor, Kifuji [...]

Subscribers only 13.11.2003

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All articles - Japan

New Intelligence Luminary

Beefing Up Intelligence College

Japan & China Team Up

Intelligence Brigade Planned

Yakuzas Move To Switzerland

How Chinese Threaten Japan

Rising Intelligence Star

CIA Embarrasses Japan

Did Japanese Revisionism Kill?

New Spy Satellites

North Korea Under Watch for Missile Test

Scenario for North Korean Attack

New Anti-Terrorist Unit

Mystery Man Who Survived Attack

Crying Need for Coordination

Tokyo Seeks to Foil Beijing

Koancho has Al Qaeda in Gunsights

New Special Forces Unit

Tokyo - Alcohol And Intelligence

Gaimusho Saves the Iraq Hostages

New Crisis Management Unit

Rise of "Kagemusha"

Japanese Doubts About Iraqi Allies

State of Alert for Japanese

Rough Ride for Koancho Boss

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All articles - Japan

New Intelligence Luminary

Beefing Up Intelligence College

Japan & China Team Up

Intelligence Brigade Planned

Yakuzas Move To Switzerland

How Chinese Threaten Japan

Rising Intelligence Star

CIA Embarrasses Japan

Did Japanese Revisionism Kill?

New Spy Satellites

North Korea Under Watch for Missile Test

Scenario for North Korean Attack

New Anti-Terrorist Unit

Mystery Man Who Survived Attack

Crying Need for Coordination

Tokyo Seeks to Foil Beijing

Koancho has Al Qaeda in Gunsights

New Special Forces Unit

Tokyo - Alcohol And Intelligence

Gaimusho Saves the Iraq Hostages

New Crisis Management Unit

Rise of "Kagemusha"

Japanese Doubts About Iraqi Allies

State of Alert for Japanese

Rough Ride for Koancho Boss

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