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The 〔(部局課名・官職名英訳名称一覧 Names of Government Organizations and Positions ) Retrieved on June 9, 2008.〕 is the official signals intelligence agency of the Japanese government, under the jurisdiction of the Japanese Ministry of Defense. It is currently one of the biggest Japanese intelligence agencies〔(Japan's Growing Intelligence Capabilities, Andrew Oros. ) Retrieved on June 9, 2008.〕 with its creation and structure modeled after the American Defense Intelligence Agency.〔(New Japanese Defense Intelligence Headquarters. ) Retrieved on June 9, 2008.〕 ==History== Back in the 1980s, the former Japanese Defense Agency had several intelligence divisions with different duties. Among these intelligence division in the Defense Agency had included those from the Central Data Command Unit, the Joint Staff Council's Second Office and the three branches of the Japan Self-Defense Forces.〔 A supposed plan to integrate the intelligence divisions of the three JSDF branches started in 1988 before lack of cooperation and subordination ended it.〔(Defence Intelligence Headquarters (DIH) ) Retrieved on June 9, 2008.〕 Plans to consolidate all the intelligence bureaus of the old Defense Administration into one agency had started in the 1990s〔(Japan, Intelligence and Security. ) Retrieved on June 9, 2008.〕 after the Diet of Japan had passed a law on May 1996, calling for the creation of a central military intelligence agency before the DIH was eventually established on January 20, 1997〔〔(Defence Intelligence Headquarters. ) Retrieved on June 9, 2008.〕 after intelligence units from the JSDF, Japanese Defense Agency and the Joint Staff council are united〔(Asia Eyes Japan's New Military Intelligence Unit. ) Retrieved on June 9, 2008.〕 with the appointment of Lieutenant General Kunimi Masahiro as the agency's first commanding officer.〔 Initially, DIH civilian and military staff members were numbered at 1,580〔 with a planned manpower of 2,000 personnel〔(Press Conference by the Press Secretary. ) Retrieved on June 9, 2008.〕 before it reached its current manpower of 2,300 staff members.〔(Ministry of Defense White Paper, 2006. Chapter 3: Operations of Self-Defense Forces for Defense of Japan, Disaster Relief and Civil Protection. ) Retrieved on June 9, 2008.〕 In 2011, the manpower is 1,907 members〔( Defense Programs and Budget of Japan Overview of FY2012 Budget Request ), p. 26〕 Spy satellites had been planned for launch in 1998 as part of augmenting the DIH's intelligence gathering capabilities. Though two were able to launch into space, two more were destroyed in a botch attempt to send them to space.〔(With Eyes Wide Shut: Japan, Heisei Militarization and the Bush Doctrine. ) Retrieved on June 9, 2008.〕 In 2005, the DIH has suffered its first internal leak of classified information when a Colonel in the JASDF had been arrested for allegedly leaking information regarding the accident of a People's Liberation Army Navy Submarine that took place in the same year in the South China Sea〔(Defense official under investigation on suspicion of leaking info+. ) Retrieved on June 9, 2008.〕〔(The secrets of the sea. ) Retrieved on June 9, 2008.〕 The DIH had announced in 2006 that a liaison office was established in Washington, D.C.〔(Japan to set up liaison office in Washington. ) Retrieved on June 16, 2008.〕 with the National Security Agency. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Defense Intelligence Headquarters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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