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New management at Naicho

Higeru Kitamura is expected to step down soon as the director of the Naicho or CIRO (Cabinet Information Research Office), [...]

Subscribers only Agencies 01.06.2016

Battle for investigation market

Blackpeak, the private investigation founded by former Kroll Asia senior executives, is strengthening its position in Japan which is also rival British corporate intelligence firm Holdingham's turf.

Subscribers only 18.05.2016

ARL Risk Management

ARL Risk Management has won the contract to protect Japanese [...]

Subscribers only 18.05.2016

Intelligence race underway

The new five-year plan of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) places intelligence centre-stage. While the PLA will have to [...]

Subscribers only Operations 16.03.2016

Defence: Submarine battles in Canberra

Germany's TKMS, France's DCNS and Japan's MIH are vying for a $50 billion deal to replace Australian submarines.

Subscribers only Corporate Intel 20.01.2016

Tokyo struggles with hostage crises

Japan has no established procedure for dealing with foreign hostage crises, even though its nationals are increasingly targeted by kidnappers.

Subscribers only Agencies 06.01.2016

Shinzo Abe reforms anti-terrorism squad

Still reeling after the death of a Japanese journalist at the hands of Islamic State (IS) earlier this year, Japan is setting up a new anti-terrorism agency.

Subscribers only Defence 02.12.2015

The Guoanbu scores against Tokyo

Tokyo said last week that a Japanese citizen had been detained by China for spying.

Subscribers only 21.10.2015

Chesapeake Strategies Group

Chesapeake Strategies Group (CSG), the US private security and corporate [...]

Subscribers only 23.09.2015

Intelligence services fear Yakuza wars

The internal intelligence department of the Kôanchô, the security and counter-intelligence service headed by Tuakasa Tago, is concerned about the [...]

Subscribers only Agencies 09.09.2015

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

Two new interception stations

According to a study by two Australian researchers (see here), [...]

Subscribers only Operations 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

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

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All articles - Japan

New management at Naicho

Battle for investigation market

ARL Risk Management

Intelligence race underway

Defence: Submarine battles in Canberra

Tokyo struggles with hostage crises

Shinzo Abe reforms anti-terrorism squad

The Guoanbu scores against Tokyo

Chesapeake Strategies Group

Intelligence services fear Yakuza wars

Toyko's new intelligence agency

Two new interception stations

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

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All articles - Japan

New management at Naicho

Battle for investigation market

ARL Risk Management

Intelligence race underway

Defence: Submarine battles in Canberra

Tokyo struggles with hostage crises

Shinzo Abe reforms anti-terrorism squad

The Guoanbu scores against Tokyo

Chesapeake Strategies Group

Intelligence services fear Yakuza wars

Toyko's new intelligence agency

Two new interception stations

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

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