David E. Kaplan (born 1955) is an investigative reporter and former director of the Center for Public Integrity's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.^[1] Before this post, he worked for the American newsweekly U.S. News & World Report.

David E. Kaplan commonly writes about terrorism, organized crime, and intelligence. He is co-author of Yakuza (University of California Press, 2003).

Kaplan is also co-author of The Cult at the End of the World, on the Aum doomsday sect behind the 1995 nerve gassing of Tokyo's subway (Crown, 1996); and author of Fires of the Dragon, on the life and murder of Taiwanese-American journalist Henry Liu.

• Cult at the End of the World: The Terrifying Story of the Aum Doomsday Cult, from the Subways of Tokyo to the Nuclear Arsenals of Russia. New York: Crown Publishers (1996). ISBN 0517705435.
• Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld, Expanded Edition, with Alec Debro. Berkeley: University of California Press (2003). ISBN 0520215621.