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Technology Leakage

Articles about "Technology Leakage"

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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.

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

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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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