Japan May Soon Gain a Powerful Trade Weapon Against South Korea

  • Deadline looms for ‘white list’ on trusted export countries
  • U.S. tech industry groups ask Tokyo and Seoul to cool it

Containers sit stacked on a container ship in Yokohama.

Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg
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Japan could soon gain a powerful new trade weapon against its neighbor South Korea.