TOKYO -- Japan's former Economic Revitalization Minister Akira Amari, a confidant to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, posits a nightmare scenario for national security: Struggling Japanese companies being scooped up by foreign entities, their data and information leaked overseas and Japan excluded from a group of like-minded democracies because it cannot be trusted with sensitive intelligence.
"Economic security is just as important as military power," Amari said in an interview.
