High-tech Japan at bottom of global 'cyber power' rankings: study

Tokyo trails all members of Five Eyes intelligence alliance, according to IISS

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Japan has created some cyber defense units, but still has no official cyber strategy.

JUNNOSUKE KOBARA, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Despite being known as a leader and innovator in information and communications technologies for decades, Japan's capabilities in cyberspace rank among the lowest compared with countries of a similar size because of constitutional constraints on collecting data, according to a study by an international think tank.

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