BANGKOK -- Suspicions that Huawei Technologies telecom gear could serve as back door for Chinese spying have helped breathe new life into a Japanese tech ecosystem long thought moribund.
A number of companies that flourished under the wing Japan's former domestic telecom monopoly, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corp. -- which was later privatized and split up to form the NTT group -- is attempting to gain a foothold in global markets.
