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The Public Security Intelligence Agency (公安調査庁, kōanchōsa-chō) is the domestic intelligence agency of Japan.It is administered by the Ministry of Justice and is tasked with internal security and espionage against threats to Japanese national security based on the Subversive Activities Prevention Act and the Act Regarding the Control of Organizations Which Committed Indiscriminate ...
The agency is said to be equivalent to the American Central Intelligence Agency. [7] Like most intelligence agencies in Japan, its personnel are usually recruited from other agencies. [8] Around 100 out of 170 CIRO agents are from other agencies/ministries with top positions occupied by career police officers. [9]
The agency was involved in a Multi-decade campaign to strengthen the image of the United States in Japan and promote the Japanese right. In 1954, the CIA sponsored the creation of a "Central Investigation Agency" meant to sway news reporting from Jiji Press and Kyodo News .
DIH facilities in Japan. Back in the 1980s, the former Defense Agency had several intelligence divisions with different duties. Among these intelligence divisions in the Defense Agency had included those from the Central Data Command Unit, the Joint Staff Council's Second Office and the three branches from the chiefs of staff in the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF). [5]
Japanese Official Radio, Radio Tokyo (NHK), sent its foreign transmissions, with some cover messages, to Japanese Doho agents outside Japan. Hiraya Amane – secret agent in Hankow, China. Wrote Zhong-guo Bi-mi She-hui Shi, the first true history of the Triads and other secret societies; this book was a special intelligence handbook.
In Japan, a nation reputed for loyalty to companies and lifetime employment, people who job-hop are often viewed as quitters. “Imagine a messy divorce,” says Yoshihito Hasegawa, who heads ...
An alleged leader from Japan’s Yakuza crime syndicate has pleaded guilty to trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar as part of a global web of trades in drugs, weapons and laundered cash ...
Initially, the Japanese believed, because of his Nazi Party membership and German ties, that Sorge was an Abwehr agent. However, the Abwehr denied it. Under torture, Sorge confessed, but the Soviet Union denied he was a Soviet agent. The Japanese made three overtures to the Soviet Union and offered to trade Sorge for one of their own spies.