The Ministry of Commerce said on Monday that to deter Japan\u2019s \u201cremilitarisation\u201d and its attempts to \u201cacquire nuclear weapons\u201d, it has added 20 Japanese entities \u201cinvolved in enhancing Japan\u2019s military capabilities\u201d to an export control list.<\/p>\n
Twenty Japanese entities have also been added to a separate watch list.<\/p>\n
The move was to safeguard China\u2019s national security and interests and to fulfil international obligations such as non-proliferation, the ministry added.<\/p>\n
A ministry spokesperson added that China\u2019s actions were in accordance with the law, were only aimed at a \u201csmall number\u201d of Japanese entities, and only targeted dual-use items.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey will not affect normal economic and trade exchanges between China and Japan, and honest and law-abiding Japanese entities have absolutely nothing to worry about,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
The entities added to the export control list include Japan\u2019s National Institute for Defense Studies and military research institutes for ground, naval and air weapons systems.<\/p>\n
They also include several entities under the umbrella of Mitsubishi Electric and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with businesses that span defence and space systems, specialised software development, precision instrument manufacturing, engineering services, logistics, maritime technology and technical support for special vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ministry of Commerce said on Monday that to deter Japan\u2019s \u201cremilitarisation\u201d and its attempts to \u201cacquire nuclear…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3620,33570,9307,33572,8,17,33571,33573,6976,5381,33569,33568],"class_list":["post-49156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-commerce","tag-defence-studies","tag-export-control-list","tag-international-obligations","tag-japan","tag-japanese","tag-military-capabilities","tag-ministry","tag-monday","tag-national-security","tag-non-proliferation","tag-safeguard-national-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}