Public Security Intelligence Agency
Japanese intelligence agency
The Public Security Intelligence Agency (公安調査庁, kōanchōsa-chō) is the national intelligence agency of Japan. It is administered by the Ministry of Justice in the government of Japan.
Agency overview | |
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Formed | July 21, 1952 |
Jurisdiction | Government of Japan |
Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
Organization
changeThe PSIA is formed with the current organization:
- Internal Departments
- General Affairs Department
- Trial Office
- Planning and Coordination Office
- Information Management Office
- Public Relations and Communications Office
- Human Resources Section
- Work Promotion Office
- First Intelligence Department (Domestic Intelligence, headed by career police officer)
- Section 1 (Domestic security issues - Citizen group/s investigation, electoral information)
- Section 2 (Kakurōkyō/Revolutionary Communist League, National Committee investigation)
- Third Division (Japanese Communist Party investigation)
- Fourth Division (Right Wing group/s investigation)
- Fifth Division (Other domestic pro-left group/s investigations such as Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction))
- Aum Special Research Office
- Second Intelligence Department (Foreign Intelligence, headed by career/non-career person)
- Section 1 (Japanese Red Army and international terrorism investigation)
- Section 2 (Foreign intelligence investigation, including liaising with foreign agents stationed in Japan)
- Third Division (North Korean investigation)
- Fourth Division (China/Southeast Asia/Russia/Europe/United States investigation)
- General Affairs Department
- Institute
- Training Institute (Located in Akishima)
- Regional Bureaus
- Hokkaido (Hokkaido Bureau), Miyagi (Tohoku Bureau), Tokyo (Kanto Bureau), Aichi (Chubu Bureau), Osaka (Kinki Bureau), Hiroshima (Chugoku Bureau), Kagawa (Shikoku Bureau) and Fukuoka (Kyushu Bureau)
- Public Security Intelligence Offices (Hokkaido, Iwate, Niigata, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Nagano, Ishikawa, Kyoto, Hyogo, Okayama, Kumamoto and Okinawa.)
- Hokkaido (Hokkaido Bureau), Miyagi (Tohoku Bureau), Tokyo (Kanto Bureau), Aichi (Chubu Bureau), Osaka (Kinki Bureau), Hiroshima (Chugoku Bureau), Kagawa (Shikoku Bureau) and Fukuoka (Kyushu Bureau)