Japan’s intelligence capabilities with professor Richard J Samuels, professor Kotani Ken and Hosaka Sanshiro
Robert Ward hosts Richard Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science, along with Kotani Ken, professor at Nihon University in Japan, and Hosaka Sanshiro, research fellow at the International Centre for Defence and Security and PhD student at the University of Tartu. Listen to the full Japan Memo podcast here.
July 11, 2024 | International Institute for Strategic Studies | Robert Ward
July 11, 2024
International Institute for Strategic Studies
The featured experts offer insights into the history of Japanese intelligence agencies, Japan’s current intelligence capabilities, intelligence threats faced by Japan and the West, and an outlook of intelligence operations.
The following books are recommended to gain a clearer picture of the topics discussed:
- Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan's Cold War, (Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007), 302pp.
- John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000), 688pp. Kotani Ken, 日本インテリジェンス史：旧日本軍から公安、内調、ＮＳＣまで [Nihon Intelligence Shi: Kyu-nihongun Kara Kōan, Naichō, NSC Made], (Tokyo: Chuo Koron Shinsha, 2022), 296pp.
- Michael S. Molasky, 呑めば、都─居酒屋の東京 [Nomeba Miyako – Izakaya No Tokyo], (Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 2016), 400pp.
- Richard J. Samuels, Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019), 384pp.
Listen to the full Japan Memo podcast here.
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