TY - BOOK AU - Samuels,Richard J. TI - Special duty: a history of the Japanese intelligence community SN - 9781501741586 U1 - 327.125 SAM 23 PY - 2019/// CY - London PB - Cornell university Press KW - Intelligence service KW - Japan N1 - Driving intelligence -- Expanding special duties (1895-1945) -- Accommodating defeat (1945-1991) -- Tinkering with failure (1991-2001) -- Reimagining possibilities (2001-2013) -- Reengineering the intelligence community (2013- ) -- The past and future of Japanese intelligence N2 - "Two decades into the 21st century, after more than a century of dangerously uneven performance that contributed to national devastation and often uncomfortable subordination to their powerful U.S. ally, Japanese leaders have begun to reinvent their nation's flawed intelligence community"-- ER -