Japan imposing crypto export restrictions!

Another Cypherpunks exclusive!

Bowing to US pressure, the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) has quietly made changes to Japanese crypto export regulations.

In the past, export of crypto products from Japan was unregulated. The exporter had to file a pro-forma export declaration with MITI. The new regulations, imposed in recent weeks without public announcement, require the exporter to state the ultimate recipient of the crypto product. MITI then conducts a lengthy approval process that can take many weeks.

It is widely assumed that the US used the thread of trade sanctions to bring about this 180 degree turn in the attitude of the Japanese government.

The new regulations apply to exports from Japan to all countries, including the US.

--anon

> Another Cypherpunks exclusive!
> 
> Bowing to US pressure, the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) has quietly made changes to Japanese crypto export regulations.
> 
> In the past, export of crypto products from Japan was unregulated. The exporter had to file a pro-forma export declaration with MITI. The new regulations, imposed in recent weeks without public announcement, require the exporter to state the ultimate recipient of the crypto product. MITI then conducts a lengthy approval process that can take many weeks.
> 
> It is widely assumed that the US used the thread of trade sanctions to bring about this 180 degree turn in the attitude of the Japanese government.

How is it "widely assumed" when we have "Cypherpunks exclusive" ...
"quietly made changes" ... and "without public annoucement"?

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 sometimes sleep,  his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who  
 torment us for own good  will torment us  without end,  for they do so with 
 the approval of their own conscience."    -   C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_ 
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Can anyone confirm this?  This is really scary stuff if the Clinton
administration really succeeded in pulling this off.

Ern

> Another Cypherpunks exclusive!
> 
> Bowing to US pressure, the Japanese Ministry of International Trade
> and Industry (MITI) has quietly made changes to Japanese crypto export
> regulations.
> 
> In the past, export of crypto products from Japan was unregulated. The
> exporter had to file a pro-forma export declaration with MITI. The new
> regulations, imposed in recent weeks without public announcement,
> require the exporter to state the ultimate recipient of the crypto
> product. MITI then conducts a lengthy approval process that can take
> many weeks.
> 
> It is widely assumed that the US used the thread of trade sanctions to
> bring about this 180 degree turn in the attitude of the Japanese
> government.
> 
> The new regulations apply to exports from Japan to all countries,
> including the US.