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Toyko's new intelligence agency

With help from Britain and Australia, Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe is preparing to launch a fully-fledged Japanese external intelligence service.

Subscribers only 26.08.2015

Yakuza-alert for 2020 Olympic games

Japan's anti-Yakuza services fear that organized crime syndicates will become massively implicated in construction projects associated with the 2020 Olympic [...]

Subscribers only Operations 27.05.2015

Holdingham unaffected by crisis

The private investigation firm Holdingham's success is in stark contrast to the sector's overall stagnation. The company says its Japanese expansion is to thank for this.

Subscribers only 25.03.2015

Abe counts on Jordan's GID

The Naicho, Japan's central intelligence agency, is hoping that Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate can help it obtain the release of Kenji Goto, the Japanese journalist imprisoned by Islamic State (IS).

Subscribers only 28.01.2015

Intelligence at heart of bilateral cooperation

The guidelines of the Japan-US mutual cooperation and security treaty, [...]

Subscribers only Defence 26.11.2014

Erys Group

Erys Group,Pierre Montoro and Arnaud Dessenne‘s private security firm, has [...]

Subscribers only 26.11.2014

Special cyber-force in the works

While Japan has been beefing up its interception capacities, the National Police Agency is looking to extend its security forces by the creation of an internet army, or nihon kôgun.

Subscribers only 29.10.2014

Tokyo steps up interception

The government led by Shinzo Abe is beefing up Japan's SIGINT capacities - with help from the US National Security Agency (NSA).

Subscribers only 01.10.2014

Ma, Naicho's mole in Beijing

The Naicho, the intelligence service of the Japanese prime minister's office, managed to handle a source at the Chinese foreign [...]

Subscribers only Operations 01.10.2014

Paris' business ambassadors go east

Maurice Gourdault Montagne and Thierry Dana, France's new ambassadors in China and Japan, have extensive business experience.

Subscribers only Corporate Intel 18.06.2014

Shotaro Yachi

Shotaro Yachi has been appointed the head of Japan's new [...]

Subscribers only 05.02.2014

Tokyo sends spies to Europe

The Japan Self Defence Forces' intelligence service is in trouble for training a special intelligence cell to spy in neighboring [...]

Subscribers only Operations 22.01.2014

Yasuhisa Ishizuka

Yasuhisa Ishizuka is the advisor to the Japanese defence minister, [...]

Subscribers only 08.01.2014

Holdingham

Holdingham, the parent company of corporate intelligence firm Hakluyt, has [...]

Subscribers only 08.01.2014

Prime minister gets more spies

Currently in the midst of a standoff with China, Japan's PM is bolstering his intelligence-gathering apparatus.

Subscribers only 04.12.2013

An inventory of Chinese UAVs

Japan's military intelligence is drawing up an inventory of all the drones used by China's People's Liberation Army (PLA).

Subscribers only 23.10.2013

The Koancho

The Koancho, Japan's police intelligence and security agency, is on [...]

Subscribers only 10.04.2013

More protection for Japanese expats

Since the death of nine Japanese workers in the hostage crisis at Algeria’s In Amenas gas facility in January, Mari [...]

Subscribers only Agencies 13.03.2013

Twin spy-satellites mystery

Japan sent two intelligence satellites into orbit from the space centre on Tanegashima Island on January 27. This comes at [...]

Subscribers only Defence 30.01.2013

Hideshi Mitani

Hideshi Mitani, who headed the Naicho, the Japanese prime minister's [...]

Subscribers only 02.01.2013

Spies celebrate Abe's comeback

Japan's intelligence community is delighted that the country's conservative Liberal [...]

Subscribers only Agencies 02.01.2013

Osamu Imai

Osamu Imai, who is in charge of international anti-terrorism cooperation [...]

Subscribers only 14.11.2012

External intelligence invisible

In the absence of a fully-fledged Japanese external intelligence agency, intelligence gathering beyond the country's borders is left to the foreign ministry and the prime minister's office.

Subscribers only 17.10.2012

Freeh bats for Wynn in Japan

Japanese billionaire Kazuo Okada filed a suit for defamation in [...]

Subscribers only Corporate Intel 05.09.2012

Warning about Aum sect holdouts

Michiaki Ozaki, boss of Japan's domestic security agency (Kôanchô in [...]

Subscribers only Agencies 04.07.2012

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All articles - Japan

Toyko's new intelligence agency

Yakuza-alert for 2020 Olympic games

Holdingham unaffected by crisis

Abe counts on Jordan's GID

Intelligence at heart of bilateral cooperation

Erys Group

Special cyber-force in the works

Tokyo steps up interception

Ma, Naicho's mole in Beijing

Paris' business ambassadors go east

Shotaro Yachi

Tokyo sends spies to Europe

Yasuhisa Ishizuka

Holdingham

Prime minister gets more spies

An inventory of Chinese UAVs

The Koancho

More protection for Japanese expats

Twin spy-satellites mystery

Hideshi Mitani

Spies celebrate Abe's comeback

Osamu Imai

External intelligence invisible

Freeh bats for Wynn in Japan

Warning about Aum sect holdouts

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All articles - Japan

Toyko's new intelligence agency

Yakuza-alert for 2020 Olympic games

Holdingham unaffected by crisis

Abe counts on Jordan's GID

Intelligence at heart of bilateral cooperation

Erys Group

Special cyber-force in the works

Tokyo steps up interception

Ma, Naicho's mole in Beijing

Paris' business ambassadors go east

Shotaro Yachi

Tokyo sends spies to Europe

Yasuhisa Ishizuka

Holdingham

Prime minister gets more spies

An inventory of Chinese UAVs

The Koancho

More protection for Japanese expats

Twin spy-satellites mystery

Hideshi Mitani

Spies celebrate Abe's comeback

Osamu Imai

External intelligence invisible

Freeh bats for Wynn in Japan

Warning about Aum sect holdouts

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