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Tokyo Grounds Spy Satellites

Japan put off the launch of two new spy satellites for the third time in early October, undermining the position of its military which wants to mark its independence vis a vis the U.S.

Subscribers only 16.10.2003

Foreign Crime Threatens National Security

The new president of Japan's National Public Safety Commission, 67-year-old Ono Kiyoto, has just laid out her strategy to restore [...]

Subscribers only 02.10.2003

Naicho to Control Spy Satellites

Japan's current program to launch spy satellites will paradoxically see admiral Fumio Ota, head of the Defence Intelligence Headquarters (Johobu), [...]

Subscribers only 18.09.2003

Chinese Lessons

The U.S. 500th Military Intelligence Group based at Camp Zama [...]

Subscribers only 31.07.2003

Hydrogen derived from kerosene

The Japanese distributor and refinery Idemitsu Kosan has just announced [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intel 19.06.2003

Who Will Satellites Watch ?

Despite angry protests by North Korea, Japan has placed its [...]

Subscribers only 17.04.2003

Japan Changes its Espionage Laws

The Japanese authorities have long been irritated by accusations of economic espionage leveled against Japanese corporations. Several scandals in the [...]

Subscribers only 14.02.2002

Japan Eyes New Fuel for Batteries

Japanese industry appears specially set on finding a way to [...]

Subscribers only 03.01.2002

Nonaka Mitsuo

General Nonaka Mitsuo is going to have to shortly begin organizing crash courses in analyzing satellite imagery for would-be experts [...]

Subscribers only 08.03.2001

Imai Tadashi

There’s been a change at the top at the Japanese foreign ministry’s Analysis and Intelligence Branch. Its chief, Takano Toshiyuki, [...]

Subscribers only 25.01.2001

World-Wide Surveillance Network

A G-8 sub-group on high-tech crime (the Lyons group) that met behind closed doors at Hiroshima in Japan between Nov. [...]

Subscribers only 07.12.2000

Major Haul for Russian Spies

The GRU's bureau in the Russian embassy in Tokyo suddenly looked smaller on Sept. 9 when one of its six [...]

Subscribers only 14.09.2000

Mitani Hideshi

Japan's top authority on international organized crime and a leading light in the intelligence community, Mitani Hideshi, was named one [...]

Subscribers only 31.08.2000

After Gleaning Data, a Translation Please

Japan's NEC Corporation has launched software that will eventually enable people who scoop up data on the Internet to leap [...]

Subscribers only 12.07.2000

REVOLUTIONARY HACKER TRAP

The Japanese company Hucom has begun developing software that can [...]

Subscribers only 04.11.1999

NOBUSHIGE TAKAMIZAWA

A strong advocate of tighter strategic relations between the United States and Japan, Nobushige Takamizawa has just taken over as [...]

Subscribers only 07.10.1999

TOSHIYUKI TAKANO

The Japanese government named 55-year-old Toshiyuki Takano director-general of the foreign ministry's intelligence and analysis bureau on July 16. Joining [...]

Subscribers only 22.07.1999

RENAULT AND NISSAN DIFFER OVER CONCEPTS

In the wake of the recent tie—up between Japan's Nissan [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intel 13.05.1999

U.S. PRESSURE ON TOKYO FOR CRYPTOGRAPHY

An official from the Japanese Internet service provider Digital Garage [...]

Subscribers only 22.04.1999

HAYAMI MASARU

The key role that the governor of the Bank of Japan, Hayami Masaru, has played in the field of financial [...]

Subscribers only 25.02.1999

EMA SEIJI

A corruption scandal involving leading military officials and two affiliates of the NEC group has triggered a serious crisis within [...]

Subscribers only 10.12.1998

DIPLOMATIC INTELLIGENCE SHAKE-UP

A recognized specialist in central Asian affairs, Magosaki Ukeri, who was named head of the Japanese foreign ministry's (Gaimusho) intelligence [...]

Subscribers only 29.10.1998

SOKA GAKKAI'S INTERNATIONAL NETWORK

A book to be published in France next year on Japan's Soga Gakkai sect will shed a completely new light [...]

Subscribers only 29.10.1998

RIFT BETWEEN JOHOHONBU AND DIA

A quarrel has broken out between gen. Patrick Hughes, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and his counterpart in Japan. [...]

Subscribers only 15.10.1998

FINGER IS THE KEY

Japan's Fujitsu company has launched a fingerprint recognition device for [...]

Subscribers only 17.09.1998

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All articles - Japan

Tokyo Grounds Spy Satellites

Foreign Crime Threatens National Security

Naicho to Control Spy Satellites

Chinese Lessons

Hydrogen derived from kerosene

Who Will Satellites Watch ?

Japan Changes its Espionage Laws

Japan Eyes New Fuel for Batteries

Nonaka Mitsuo

Imai Tadashi

World-Wide Surveillance Network

Major Haul for Russian Spies

Mitani Hideshi

After Gleaning Data, a Translation Please

REVOLUTIONARY HACKER TRAP

NOBUSHIGE TAKAMIZAWA

TOSHIYUKI TAKANO

RENAULT AND NISSAN DIFFER OVER CONCEPTS

U.S. PRESSURE ON TOKYO FOR CRYPTOGRAPHY

HAYAMI MASARU

EMA SEIJI

DIPLOMATIC INTELLIGENCE SHAKE-UP

SOKA GAKKAI'S INTERNATIONAL NETWORK

RIFT BETWEEN JOHOHONBU AND DIA

FINGER IS THE KEY

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All articles - Japan

Tokyo Grounds Spy Satellites

Foreign Crime Threatens National Security

Naicho to Control Spy Satellites

Chinese Lessons

Hydrogen derived from kerosene

Who Will Satellites Watch ?

Japan Changes its Espionage Laws

Japan Eyes New Fuel for Batteries

Nonaka Mitsuo

Imai Tadashi

World-Wide Surveillance Network

Major Haul for Russian Spies

Mitani Hideshi

After Gleaning Data, a Translation Please

REVOLUTIONARY HACKER TRAP

NOBUSHIGE TAKAMIZAWA

TOSHIYUKI TAKANO

RENAULT AND NISSAN DIFFER OVER CONCEPTS

U.S. PRESSURE ON TOKYO FOR CRYPTOGRAPHY

HAYAMI MASARU

EMA SEIJI

DIPLOMATIC INTELLIGENCE SHAKE-UP

SOKA GAKKAI'S INTERNATIONAL NETWORK

RIFT BETWEEN JOHOHONBU AND DIA

FINGER IS THE KEY

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