Japanese Foreign Intelligence and Grand Strategy

"This book is one of the best texts written in English to understand a history of Japanese foreign intelligence after World War II. Dr. Williams sheds light on Japan's dark intelligence world by using numerous interviews and sources, and reveals several factors which have made the present Japanese intelligence community." — Ken Kotani, professor, Nihon University, Japan

"Williams's description of Japan's latest intelligence and security reforms provides excellent background and analysis both of continuing challenges Japan faces and how it has addressed past gaps and failures." — Andrew L. Oros, author of Japan's Security Renaissance, Washington College

"Brad Williams has produced a work of essential interest to scholars and students in the fields of IR and Japanese security studies. The volume is highly distinguished in providing a comprehensive and sharp analysis of Japan's evolving intelligence systems, and using this to point the way in larger questions of understanding Japan's shift in grand strategy from the Yoshida Doctrine to the new 'Abe Doctrine'." — Christopher Hughes, Professor of International Politics & Japanese Studies, Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS), University of Warwick

"I recommend this book as a solid work for those interested in the evolving intelligence community of the world's third economic power." — The Cipher Brief

"An impressive and seminal work of meticulous research and outstanding scholarship, "Japanese Foreign Intelligence and Grand Strategy: From the Cold War to the Abe Era" will be of particular interest to students, academia, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject of Japanese intelligence, security, or international relations." — Midwest Book Review

"Williams provides English-language readers with one of the best books on the evolution of Japan's intelligence community. This book is, therefore, an important piece of the puzzle for explaining not just Japan's past security behavior, but also its likely future." — H-Diplo