【Publications and Insights】 Shigeru Kitamura Publishes “National Security and Intelligence”

Shigeru Kitamura, CEO of Kitamura Economic Security, released his latest book National Security and Intelligence through Chuo Koron Shinsha.  The author, having served as a senior official of the National Police Agency, as Director of Cabinet Intelligence, and as Secretary General of the National Security Secretariat, draws upon extensive experience in both operational and policy spheres of intelligence. He issues a grave warning to all who inhabit an era in which every domain—be it the economy, communications, or critical infrastructure—has become a theatre of conflict. How is Japan to confront the most intricate and severe security environment since the post-war period? This volume offers a rigorous analysis of the National Security Strategy and the Economic Security Promotion Act, surveys the war in Ukraine and the unrest in the Middle East, and elucidates the nature of contemporary warfare, in which intelligence is nothing short of indispensable. Details: https://www.chuko.co.jp/tanko/2025/07/005929.html