Public Security Intelligence Agency

Public Security Intelligence Agency

Agency overview
Formed	July 21, 1952
Jurisdiction	Government of Japan
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan

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.

Organization

The 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)
• 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.)