As the first private intelligence agency in Japan, the Institute for International Strategy and Information Analysis, Inc., or "IISIA" was established in April, 2007 by Mr. Takeo HARADA, former career diplomat of the Minstry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Beyond daily provision of Japanese retail customers with analysis of current affairs especially in the financial and intelligence world, the IISIA actively helps major companies with its original method of forecasting and OSINT (=Open Source Intelligence). The IIISIA is a partner of the International Security Network (ISN, http://www.isn.ethz.ch/), Zurich, Switzerland.