Takeo Harada

Takeo is the Founder & CEO of the Institute for International Strategy and Information Analysis, Inc (IISIA), Japan’s first private intelligence agency specialized in providing corporate clients with forecasting and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). A former career diplomat at Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, working as an Assistant Director of the North East Asia Division, dealing with North Korea, he is a graduate in law from the University of Tokyo, and holds a politics degree from Freie Universität Berlin and a law degree from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. He is the author of "Pax Japonica. The Resurrection of Japan".

The 2021 Myanmar coup: a Japanese tale of sorrow and sadness

With yesterday’s abrupt coup by the military junta in Myanmar, Japanese multinational companies (MNCs) are faced with enormous difficulties. After…

3 years ago

The « Men in Black » of Japan’s public foreign investment

Synchronicity always connects people, wherever they are and whatever they are doing. As for me, it gave me the opportunity…

4 years ago