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Japan to restrict foreign investment in IT firms

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan will expand its restriction for foreign investors to acquire stocks in the country's firms for national security reasons by adding information technology-related firms from August.

The move is aimed at preventing the outflow of sensitive information and technologies to other countries, including China.

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