The National Defense Intelligence Headquarters (Intelligence Headquarters, Jōhōhonbu) is the military intelligence and signals intelligence agency of the Japanese government, under the jurisdiction of the Japanese Ministry of Defense. It is currently one of Japan's largest intelligence agencies, and its creation and structure mimic that of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency.
Building of the Intelligence Headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Defense. Source: GJ
history
Back in the 1980s, the former defense department had several intelligence services with different responsibilities. These intelligence services of the Defense Agency included three departments from the Central Data Command, the Second Office of the Joint Staff Headquarters, and the Japan Self-Defense Forces. Most of the establishment of the DISH (Intelligence Headquarters) is based on the Japanese government's Self-Defense Forces Second Investigation Bureau. Click here: Japan Ground Signal Intelligence Station Visual Guide - Wakkanai Station and Korean Air Flight 007 were shot down
A so-called plan began in 1988 to integrate the intelligence services of the three branches of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, but the program was terminated due to a lack of cooperation and affiliation.
Plans to merge all the intelligence bureaus of the old Ministry of Defense into one agency began in the 1990s, when Diet passed a law in May 1996 calling for the creation of a central military intelligence agency, after which the DISH (Intelligence Headquarters) was finally established on January 20, 1997, after intelligence units from the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, the Japanese Defense Agency, and the Joint Staff were united to appoint Lieutenant General Masahiro Kunimi as the agency's first commander. Initially, the number of civilian and military staff in the DIH (Intelligence Headquarters) was 1580, with a planned manpower of 2000, and then reached the current manpower of 2300. In 2011, the manpower was 1907 .
The spy satellite was planned to launch in 1998 as part of an enhanced intelligence gathering capability of the Ministry of Health. While two satellites were able to launch into space, two others were destroyed in a failed attempt to go into space.
In 2006, the Department of Defense announced the establishment of a liaison office with the NSA in Washington, D.C.
Officers of the Japanese Defense Intelligence Headquarters visited Kadena
Known activities
After the launch of the Dapo-dong No. 1 ballistic missile from North Korea on August 31, 1998, Japanese Self-Defense Force ships and aircraft began conducting searches in the Sea of Japan to collect any fragments of the missile, with intelligence support from the Ministry of National Defense, such as sending North Korean experts to the United States to deal with the matter.
North Korea's radio communications were intercepted by the Kagoshima Kikaijima Radio Monitoring Station of the SIGINT (Communications Information) department. The successful interception of North Korean communications later led to a 2001 naval shootout between a Japanese Coast Guard vessel and a suspected North Korean spy ship near Amami Oshima, which had been destroyed.
During the 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake, the Ministry of National Defense provided intelligence to the Japanese government's Self-Defense Forces forces deployed in Indonesia.
As part of a plan code-named MALLARD, the DIF (Intelligence Headquarters) reportedly uses a signal intelligence facility in Tachiarai (Odaochicho, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan) to monitor communications from transit satellites. The program reportedly intercepts more than 12 million internet communications per day.
headquarters
The DIH (Intelligence Headquarters) is under the control of the Joint Staff and is controlled by the National Defense Intelligence Council, which is composed of the Chiefs of Staff of the Japanese Government Forces, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, as well as the Chiefs of Staff, the Joint Staff, the Minister of State of Defense and the Minister of Defense.
In March 2006, the command of the DIH (Intelligence Headquarters) was given directly to the Japanese Defense Minister. Adjutant officers are usually civilian personnel duly appointed by the Department of Defence. Four Defense Intelligence Officers (DIOs) were also appointed, three of them colonels from the Japanese government forces or the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, and one civilian official.
Japan's post-war signal intelligence (SIGINT) facility was run by an agency of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) called Chobetsu or Chosa Besshitsu between 1958 and 1997. Chobetsu reported directly to the Cabinet Research Office, which was later named the Cabinet Office of Intelligence and Research. Today, Japan's large number of signals intelligence (SIGINT) facilities are managed by the National Defense Intelligence Headquarters, a special (or "affiliated") organization within the Ministry of Defense led by lieutenant generals in the Self-Defense Forces.
From 1958 to 1997, SIGINT (Communications Information) facilities, managed by Chosa Besshitsu or the Annex Room, Section II, Investigation Division II, were managed by the DISH (Intelligence Headquarters). The command of the SIGINT department is usually held by a senior officer of the national police.
organization
A number of departments have been established under DHI, including:
| Board of Trustees | authorization |
| Administrative Bureau | Provide administrative and logistical support |
| Planning Bureau | Execute and plan an intelligence gathering/analysis program for DIL. Acts as a point of contact in coordination with intelligence agencies within and outside the Ministry of Defense. |
| Geospatial Intelligence Agency | Analysis of satellite imagery from commercial satellites or from located in Tachikawa, Tokyo |
| Signals Intelligence Agency | Analyze SIGINT intelligence. Responsible for its electronic department in Ichigaya to monitor communications based in North Korea. It also manages two CDAA "elephant cages" and six other communications offices. They are located in Kobundo City, Niigata Prefecture, Oi City, Saitama Prefecture, Arai City in Fukushima Prefecture, and Kikaishima City, Kagoshima Prefecture. |
| Evaluation Bureau | Aggregate/evaluate intelligence from Japanese military attachés abroad, intelligence from friendly countries, and intelligence from DHI collaborators and agents |
| Joint Intelligence Agency | Gather and analyze the intelligence needed to respond immediately and directly support the heads of the JSO and SDF. The division is part of DHI, but is also expected to be used as the JSO's J-2. |
function
The main role of the DISH (Intelligence Headquarters) is to gather information and analysis to plan defense and operational policy. The agency collects information from publicly sourced, signal, and pictorial intelligence, as well as from other Japanese government ministries, Japanese embassies, and other affiliated ministries and organizations. In addition, they gather intelligence through surveillance activities.
Known DISH supervisor
The DISH supervisor is usually positioned by a lieutenant general from the Japanese government forces/Japan Air Self-Defense Force or a vice admiral from the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force.
- Fumio Ota [26]
- Kenichiro Kitaen; Former Chief of Staff of the Air Force
- Koji Shimohira
- Tadashi Miyagawa (Masashi Miyakawa)
The article comes from the public account [Information Analysis Station]
