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An image of the Russian spy ship Yantar which is operating off the northern coast of Scotland, is shown on a screen during Defense Secretary John Healey's speech on how the U.K.'s defense industry is delivering growth and national renewal across the U.K., at No 9 Downing Street in central London on Wednesday.
WORLD
Nov 20, 2025
Russian spy ship points lasers at British pilots for first time
The same ship entered British waters earlier this year, leading the U.K. to deploy an attack submarine to deter it.
Chinese consulates in Japan and elsewhere regularly conduct gray-zone operations in the form of “pop-up” events at nondesignated diplomatic facilities.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 19, 2025
Beware China’s ‘gray-zone’ activities on Japanese soil
China’s wolf-warrior diplomacy and belligerent social media posts are not the only unsettling activity carried out by Chinese diplomats in Japan.
U.K. Minister of State in the Home Office Dan Jarvis makes a statement to members of Parliament on an "espionage alert" issued by Britain's domestic intelligence agency MI5, in the House of Commons in London on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 19, 2025
MI5 warns U.K. lawmakers of new Chinese espionage threat
The security service said spies used cover stories to approach U.K. officials on sites like LinkedIn, often offering jobs as freelance consultants.
The recent China spy scandal in the U.K. highlights a chaotic, disorienting political and intelligence environment, resembling something more likely found in spy fiction rather than real-world espionage.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 28, 2025
U.K.’s China spying scandal is a ‘Slow Horses’ plot
The China spy scandal currently gripping U.K. politics and media is again redolent of a fictional milieu.
Beijing claims to have "irrefutable evidence” of cyber attacks by the U.S. on a Chinese government agency.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 19, 2025
China says it found evidence of U.S. cyber attack on state agency
The accusations follow repeated allegations from the of West of Chinese cyberattacks on their computer systems.
Director General of MI5 Ken McCallum speaks at Thames House, the headquarters of the U.K.'s Security Service, in London, on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 17, 2025
MI5 chief frustrated by collapse of China spying case in U.K.
Britain's Crown Prosecution Service unexpectedly dropped charges last month against two British men accused of spying for Beijing between 2021 and 2023.
Former White House India Adviser Ashley Tellis
WORLD / Politics
Oct 16, 2025
Former White House India adviser charged under Espionage Act
Ashley Tellis was taken into custody after making an initial court appearance on Tuesday in Alexandria, Virginia.
Commuters cross Westminster Bridge in London in 2024. The United Kingdom’s domestic security service has warned politicians and their staff that they are being targeted by spies from China, Russia and Iran.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 14, 2025
MI5 warns U.K. politicians of spying efforts by China, Russia and Iran
The warning comes weeks after a high-profile espionage case in which two men were accused of spying for China fell apart.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet during the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in November 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 13, 2025
U.K. ministers criticize Starmer’s China policy amid spying row
Several Cabinet ministers are concerned the prime minister has taken too generous an approach to Beijing and want him to commit to prioritizing national security.
Taiwan's flag is carried across the sky during National Day celebrations in Taipei on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 11, 2025
China issues bounty for Taiwan PsyOps unit for 'separatism'
Chinese police offered rewards of $1,400 for information about 18 people it said were Taiwanese military psychological operations officers.
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at 10 Downing Street in London on Oct. 2
WORLD / Politics
Oct 9, 2025
Britain's Starmer denies trying to appease China after spying case dropped
Two men had been accused of passing politically sensitive information to a Chinese intelligence agent.
Police look at residential buildings that were destroyed overnight during Russian drone and missile strikes, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv on Sept. 28.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 5, 2025
China provides intelligence to Russia on Ukraine targets, Kyiv says
A senior Ukrainian official said Beijing was passing on satellite intelligence on targets, including those benefiting from foreign investment.
Fumitake Fujita, co-leader of Nippon Ishin no Kai, speaks during a news conference at the Diet on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 2, 2025
Nippon Ishin to submit anti-espionage bill to extra Diet session
The bill will call for establishing a foreign intelligence agency based on existing government bodies.
Suspected Chinese hackers can dwell undiscovered in a victims’ networks for more than a year while stealing information, researchers say.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 25, 2025
‘Most prevalent’ Chinese hacking group seen targeting tech and law firms
The attackers are described as incredibly advanced and stealthy, dwelling undiscovered in their victims’ networks for an average of more than a year while stealing information.
Then-Taiwanese Vice Foreign Minister Alexander Yui — who is currently the island's de facto ambassador to the U.S. — speaks during a news conference in Taipei in July 2023.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 20, 2025
Trump intelligence advisers met with Taiwanese official
The meeting with Alexander Yui, Taiwan's de facto U.S. ambassador, amounted to one of the higher-level Taiwan-U.S. contacts to date during Trump's second term.
Chinese passports left behind in one of the rooms of a dormitory building at a former online casino compound in Bamban, the Philippines, last December after a raid revealed the mayor’s business connections to a money-laundering scandal and sparked allegations of Chinese espionage.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 13, 2025
Philippines says Chinese ‘malign influence activities’ continue at high pace
A top Philippine security official has said that the espionage activities are “almost on par” with Beijing’s ship deployments in parts of the South China Sea.
A government building that houses the National Police Agency in Kasumigaseki, Tokyo. Japanese authorities issued a joint advisory Wednesday about Salt Typhoon, a Chinese government-backed hacker group, in a document prepared by the United States and signed by a total of 13 countries.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 28, 2025
Japan and others warn of Chinese government-backed hacker group
The group is linked to Chinese telecommunications firms that provide services to the Chinese People's Liberation Army and China's Ministry of State Security, authorities have said.
Iran's national flag flies over the Iranian embassy in Canberra on Tuesday, the day Australia's government said it is expelling Iran's ambassador, accusing the country of being behind antisemitic attacks in Melbourne and Sydney.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 26, 2025
Australia expels Iranian ambassador over antisemitic attacks
Australian intelligence services reached the "deeply disturbing conclusion" that Iran directed at least two arsons, in Melbourne and Sydney.
Director of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency Lt. Jeffrey Kruse (left) testifies during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington in March 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 23, 2025
In latest purge, Hegseth removes head of Pentagon intel agency and others
The move appeared to be the latest attempt to penalize current and former military, intelligence and law enforcement officials whose views have been seen as at odds with Trump.
A T-6C Texan aircraft flying above a graduating parade at the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Base Ohakea, located north-west of the city of Palmerston North in New Zealand on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Aug 18, 2025
Military court finds New Zealand soldier guilty of attempted espionage
The soldier was caught offering to pass military base maps and photographs to an undercover officer posing as an agent for a third country.
Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy
Cloudflare has been ordered to pay ¥500 million after four major publishing firms accused the firm of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
First foreign president of Hosei University looks abroad for change
Hosei University President Diana Khor, who herself was an international student, aims to encourage students to look outward and cultivate a global mindset.
Yen and Japanese bonds continue to retreat as verbal intervention lacking
The yen has deepened recent lows against the dollar as the 'sell Japan' trade gains steam ahead of big fiscal stimulus.
A dictionary revision illustrates how Japanese keeps on evolving
The reference text A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar recently underwent a revision for the first time in nearly four decades.
First foreign president of Hosei University looks abroad for change
Hosei University President Diana Khor, who herself was an international student, aims to encourage students to look outward and cultivate a global mindset.
Japanese companies advised to change mindset about investment in Africa
Bernard Laurendeau, chief of Enkopa Lab Japan, in Tokyo last month
Munetaka Murakami headlines quartet looking to move to MLB via posting system
The Swallows' Munetaka Murakami has 246 career home runs in eight NPB seasons.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
Why we can’t get enough of the sham of the rental family
“Rental Family,” directed and co-written by the single-named Hikari, follows out-of-work actor Phillip (Brendan Fraser), who is hired as the “token white guy” at a Tokyo agency called Rental Family.

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