secret-intelligence

Updated: May 29, 2025

The secret-intelligence department of a twentieth-century army employs and creates opportunities just as zealously as did the disciples of Sung and 'Ng. It is not here that the defects in the bushi's ethics must be sought. The most prominent of those defects was indifference to the rights of the individual.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era