[Tokyo 18th Reuters]-Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Kazuhide Sugawara, announced on the 18th that South Korea excluded Japan from the “white country” of export control. “The Korean government announced this policy in August. After that, he inquired about the details of the grounds for the decision, but it was very regrettable that this measure was reached without sufficient explanation from the Korean side.
After that, he expressed that he would like to continue to ask the Korean export control authorities to be fully accountable to the international community.