IWP Student Speaker Series: Terrence Matsuo on Japanese HUMINT

Full Lecture Title: Bridging the Intelligence Gap: Comparing Imperial and Contemporary Japanese HUMINT and the Need for a JCIA This lecture explores the evolution of Japan’s intelligence community from Imperial Japan to the present day. It compares the intelligence capabilities of the prewar and postwar eras, examines why Japan never established a centralized intelligence agency comparable to the CIA, and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary Japanese intelligence institutions. Particular attention is given to Japan’s underdeveloped human intelligence (HUMINT) capabilities and recent calls for intelligence reform amid a changing regional security environment. Terrence Matsuo is a graduate certificate student at The Institute of World Politics and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI), where he writes on the U.S.-Korea alliance and Korea-Japan relations. A former journalist, he has contributed to reporting at NK News, the Nelson Report, and the Asahi Shimbun. He holds a Master of Public Policy from Pepperdine University and a B.A. from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa in Japanese Language and Literature and Political Science. **Learn more about IWP graduate programs: https://www.iwp.edu/academics/graduat... ***Make a gift to IWP: https://wl.donorperfect.net/weblink/W...