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Japan’s intelligence reforms with Professor Kotani Ken

Japan’s intelligence reforms with Professor Kotani Ken

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Robert Ward hosts Professor Kotani Ken, Professor of College of Risk Management at Nihon University, for an in-depth discussion on the recent reforms of Japan’s intelligence capabilities.


Together, they explore:

  • The significance of the recent setting up of Japan’s first National Intelligence Bureau and National Intelligence Council
  • Japan’s strengths and weaknesses in intelligence capabilities
  • Japan’s further cooperation with foreign intelligence agencies
  • Upcoming related intelligence policies and reforms


Recommended readings from our guests:

  • Brad Williams, Japanese Foreign Intelligence and Grand Strategy: From the Cold War to the Abe Era, (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2021), 280pp.


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Date recorded: 31 July 2026


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