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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

TOKYO
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

TOKYO
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

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

INTELLIGENCE
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

TERRORISM
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

TOKYO
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

INTELLIGENCE
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

TOKYO
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

TOKYO
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

CAMP ZAMA
Chinese Lessons

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

Subscribers only 31.07.2003

WEAK SIGNALS
Hydrogen derived from kerosene

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

Subscribers only Corporate Intel 19.06.2003

TOKYO
Who Will Satellites Watch ?

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

Subscribers only 17.04.2003

TOKYO
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

NANOTECHNOLOGY
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

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All articles - Japan

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

TOKYO
Gaimusho Saves the Iraq Hostages

TOKYO
New Crisis Management Unit

TOKYO
Rise of "Kagemusha"

INTELLIGENCE
Japanese Doubts About Iraqi Allies

TERRORISM
State of Alert for Japanese

TOKYO
Rough Ride for Koancho Boss

INTELLIGENCE
Tokyo Grounds Spy Satellites

TOKYO
Foreign Crime Threatens National Security

TOKYO
Naicho to Control Spy Satellites

CAMP ZAMA
Chinese Lessons

WEAK SIGNALS
Hydrogen derived from kerosene

TOKYO
Who Will Satellites Watch ?

TOKYO
Japan Changes its Espionage Laws

NANOTECHNOLOGY
Japan Eyes New Fuel for Batteries

Nonaka Mitsuo

Imai Tadashi

World-Wide Surveillance Network

Major Haul for Russian Spies

Mitani Hideshi

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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

TOKYO Gaimusho Saves the Iraq Hostages

TOKYO New Crisis Management Unit

TOKYO Rise of "Kagemusha"

INTELLIGENCE Japanese Doubts About Iraqi Allies

TERRORISM State of Alert for Japanese

TOKYO Rough Ride for Koancho Boss

INTELLIGENCE Tokyo Grounds Spy Satellites

TOKYO Foreign Crime Threatens National Security

TOKYO Naicho to Control Spy Satellites

CAMP ZAMA Chinese Lessons

WEAK SIGNALS Hydrogen derived from kerosene

TOKYO Who Will Satellites Watch ?

TOKYO Japan Changes its Espionage Laws

NANOTECHNOLOGY Japan Eyes New Fuel for Batteries

Nonaka Mitsuo

Imai Tadashi

World-Wide Surveillance Network

Major Haul for Russian Spies

Mitani Hideshi

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TOKYO
Gaimusho Saves the Iraq Hostages

TOKYO
New Crisis Management Unit

TOKYO
Rise of "Kagemusha"

INTELLIGENCE
Japanese Doubts About Iraqi Allies

TERRORISM
State of Alert for Japanese

TOKYO
Rough Ride for Koancho Boss

INTELLIGENCE
Tokyo Grounds Spy Satellites

TOKYO
Foreign Crime Threatens National Security

TOKYO
Naicho to Control Spy Satellites

CAMP ZAMA
Chinese Lessons

WEAK SIGNALS
Hydrogen derived from kerosene

TOKYO
Who Will Satellites Watch ?

TOKYO
Japan Changes its Espionage Laws

NANOTECHNOLOGY
Japan Eyes New Fuel for Batteries