Security Export Control of Japan

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Overview

The Japanese security export control system is very similar to U.S. EAR (Export Administration Regulations).  It is not have to be "Made in Japan",  but it covers products/technologies that came into Japan from another country go out to other countries via Japan, too.
Japanese export control system is based on the international regimes such as NSG (Nuclear Suppliers Group: http://www.nsg-online.org/en/ ), MTCR (Missile Technology Control Regime: https://mtcr.info/),  AG (The Australia Group: https://australiagroup.net/en/), and WA(The Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies: https://www.wassenaar.org/).
Therefore, Japanese government designate to Group A countires (used be called WHITE COUNTRIES)those who participating all the regimes, exchanging sufficient information with Japan, and having sufficient security management.  
The Japanese security export control aims to manage Normal Weapons and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), and to prevent diffusion them to world wide from Japan.  Then, proper Japanese security control is very important so that every country has a risk of terrorism and weapon attacks without proper management.
Three countries (Korea, Turkey, and Ukraine) are not Group A countries even they are participating all the regimes because Japanese government cannot control them enough for listed products/technologies and dual use products/technologies exported from Japan.  More over, no information exchange have done between Japan and Korea for over 3 (three) years.  
South Korea categorised as Group B.


26 countries are treat as Group A.
Yellow shows Asian countries.

And Afghanistan, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan are controlled as restricted countries aka called Group D.  Most of all the products include foods are needed to get export license from METI.

All other countries are categorized as Group B.

 Flow chart of Japanese Export Control

 Establish a company in Japan