Japan-South Korea spat underscores importance of export controls

Measures are needed to ensure dangerous materials do not end up in wrong hands

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South Korean protesters demonstrate outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul: relations between the two countries have been strained recently over trade and wartime issues. © Kyodo

TETSURO KOSAKA, Nikkei senior staff writer

TOKYO -- The backlash in South Korea continues against Japan's move to tighten controls on exports to the country, but analysts here say Tokyo has a legitimate concern that technologies vital to national security might fall into the wrong hands.

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