Ghost in the shell

It is the near future. The world is highly information intensive, with a vast corporate network covering the planet, electrons and light pulsing through it. But the nation-state and ethnic groups still survive. On the edge of Asia, in a strange corporate conglomerate state called "Japan," cyborg agent, Motoko Kusanagi and Public Security Section 9 are charged with tracking down the most dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals, including "ghost hackers"...