"Deemed Export" Articles (11)

What Waseda's Export Control Poster Gets Right: It Is More Than Shipping Goods

On 9 September 2026, Waseda University published an awareness poster on security export control. Its headline, "More Than Just Shipping Goods!", points at five everyday campus scenes: accepting international students and researchers, joint research, carrying data and samples abroad, hosting visitors, and closed lectures. This piece explains why export control is so often mistaken for a shipping formality, how Japan's "deemed export" rules and the 2022 specific-types approach work, what intake management looks like now that Japan hosts 408,000 international students, and the research security procedure manual that takes effect in fiscal 2026.

2026-09-12Ryuta Hamamoto

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Is Six or Seven Years Enough for Stealing a Process Recipe? | Sentencing, and the Gate You Actually Control

Korean courts handed down six years four months and seven years for leaking Samsung DRAM process technology to a Chinese manufacturer. Against a development cost of 1.6 trillion won, is that proportionate? A look at Korean sentencing, Japan's far lower ceiling, and why criminal law can never protect your technology.

2026-08-24Ryuta Hamamoto

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China Will Restrict Exit for Technology Cases from September 15: State Council Order No. 841

From 15 September 2026, China may bar its own citizens from leaving the country when they have violated export control or technology import-export rules and may endanger national industrial or technological security. I read State Council Order No. 841 against the US deemed export rule and Japan's specified categories, and set out what it means for companies.

2026-08-09Ryuta Hamamoto

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SpaceX's NCNT Supply Chain and Nationality Demands: Where Contract Terms End and Law Begins

What would you do if a customer told you to remove people of a particular nationality from your factory floor?

2026-08-07Ryuta Hamamoto

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Where Does Technology Leakage Actually Come From? Reading METI's Second-Edition Guidance and Filling the AI-Agent Gap (2026)

Say "technology leakage" and most people hear "export control." In practice, export control is one route among many. The engineer who resigns.

2026-08-07Ryuta Hamamoto

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The Human Breakwater Against Technology Leakage | Connecting Hiring, Deemed-Export Specified Categories and Departure Into One Line (2026)

Part one broke leakage into seven routes and drew the map. This time I am pulling out just one of them: people.

2026-08-07Ryuta Hamamoto

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Research Integrity and Economic Security at Universities: A Practical Guide to Deemed Exports and Research Security (2026 Edition)

A practitioner's overview of how research integrity and research security have been built into Japan's economic security policy.

2026-07-19Ryuta Hamamoto

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Overseas Trips and Online Meetings Are Subject to Export Control: The "Provision of Technology" That Can Catch You Off Guard

The night before a trip, you pack a change of clothes and a souvenir into your suitcase, then slide your company laptop in beside them.

2026-06-28Ryuta Hamamoto

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Export Control Compliance for the Biotech and Pharma Industry: Practical Guidance for Global Expansion and International Joint Research (2026 Edition)

"We make drugs, not weapons." When we raise export control with a pharma or biotech team, nine times out of ten this is the first reaction.

2026-04-24Ryuta Hamamoto

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Deemed Exports and the "Specified Categories" in 5 Minutes | Foreign Talent and Joint Research Risks After the 2022 Amendment

Deemed Exports and the "Specified Categories" in 5 Minutes | Foreign Talent and Joint Research Risks After the 2022 Amendment.

2026-04-24Ryuta Hamamoto

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Export Control for SaaS and Software Companies: Deemed Export, ISMAP, and Cloud Regulations in Practice [2026 Edition]

Working through this series on industry-specific export control has reminded me how unusual SaaS is. The goods don't move, but the technology does.

2026-04-24Ryuta Hamamoto