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BOOK REVIEW | ‘The Merchant’s Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan’ by Simon Partner
It is a well-known story that Japan’s transformation from a largely closed nation, sakoku, into a powerful internati
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BOOK REVIEW | ‘Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer’ by Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil
In January of this year, Mitsubishi Electric and NEC, both of whom do classified defense-related work for Japan’s Mini
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BOOK REVIEW | ‘Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community’ by Richard J. Samuels
Author Richard J. Samuels, director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Techno
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BOOK REVIEW | ‘Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping’ by Roger Faligot
Chinese espionage activities are daily items in the press of late. Arrests of operatives who have sold the […
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China’s Dream, Japan’s Nightmare?
In November 2012, shortly after being anointed to the highest position in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and even [
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Award-Winning Book Pulls Back Curtain on Long History of Sino-Japanese Relations
A Japanese illustration depicting the negotiations of the Treaty of Shimonoseki in April 1895. Photo courtesy of Wikimed