"Technology Leakage" Articles (12)

Reading Japan's Technology Leakage Guidance, Second Edition (Part 2 of 2)

Part 2 of a walkthrough of METI's Technology Leakage Prevention Guidance, Second Edition. It covers Chapter 4 on joint research, Chapter 5 on supplier and customer coordination, and the reference section on the research security procedure, then suggests, based on the original, the order in which a small company might begin.

2026-11-07Ryuta Hamamoto

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MICE Explained: Four Motives Behind Espionage and How Employers Can Protect Staff

What do the four MICE motives (Money, Ideology, Coercion or Compromise, Ego) mean in counterintelligence? This guide traces the term, says what could not be verified, and turns each motive into support for employees, not suspicion of them.

2026-11-06Ryuta Hamamoto

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Reading Japan's Technology Leakage Guidance, Second Edition (Part 1 of 2)

Part 1 of a plain-language walkthrough of METI's 182-page Technology Leakage Prevention Guidance, Second Edition. It follows the original chapter by chapter: aims and stance, common measures, overseas production sites, and leakage through people. Joint research and supplier coordination are in Part 2.

2026-11-06Ryuta Hamamoto

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What Is TICS? Japan's Technical Information Management Certification

TICS is a Japanese certification scheme in which government-accredited bodies review how a company protects its technical information. Framework, 2024 standard revision, process, cost, ISO/IEC 27001 and trade secrets explained.

2026-11-06Ryuta Hamamoto

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Cyberattacks Are an Export Control Problem Too: Tech Leaks and Fake IT Workers

When drawings and technical documents are stolen in a cyberattack, it is not only an IT problem. Working from primary sources in Japan, including METI's guidance documents, government alerts on North Korean IT workers and the design policy for the new SCS supply chain security ratings, this article maps four routes technology leaves a company, ten checks to run in-house, and how to prepare when a customer asks for TICS or an SCS 4-star rating.

2026-10-04Ryuta Hamamoto

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The Asahi Kasei Arrest: Which Law Was Broken, and Where Export Controls Fit

On September 17, 2026, Aichi police arrested a former Asahi Kasei employee on suspicion of disclosing trade secrets on a latent curing agent used in semiconductor packaging to a Chinese company. Working from Asahi Kasei's own statement and Japanese press reports, this article lays out the timeline, explains which part of Japan's Unfair Competition Prevention Act the arrest rests on, why the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act and the Economic Security Promotion Act do not appear, and what to check in your own company today. Updated to include the reported indictment of October 27, 2026.

2026-09-18Ryuta 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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What "Economic Security Management" Means in Practice — 11 Cases from METI's Collection of What Companies Actually Did

Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has published a collection of concrete corporate case studies on economic security. Where the guidelines said what companies should do, this one shows what other companies actually did, across 11 cases. From a plant that stopped for a day to a firm that built up inventory and won investor confidence for it. Here is the behavior-change framework it uses, and what financial institutions say they are really looking at.

2026-08-18Ryuta Hamamoto

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

China brought State Council Order No. 841 into force on 15 September 2026. Its authorities may now bar Chinese citizens from leaving when they have violated export control or technology import-export rules and may endanger industrial or technological security. I read the text against the US deemed export rule and Japan's specified categories, and set out what is known as of 6 November 2026.

2026-08-09Ryuta 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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How to Implement Technology Leakage Countermeasures in an Organisation | Use the Export Control Internal Compliance Programme as the Vessel, All the Way to AI Agents (2026)

Part one broke leakage into seven routes; part two connected the four human phases into a line. This time: how to implement it in an organisation.

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