In response to the incident wherein a Chinese researcher on the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) was arrested for leaking data on superior expertise, Minister of State for Science and Technology Takaichi requested ministers to advertise analysis actions at analysis institutes below their jurisdiction. We demanded thorough making certain of soundness and equity.
A Chinese senior chief researcher on the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) is accused of leaking data on superior expertise associated to fluorine compounds that he’s researching to a Chinese chemical product manufacturing firm. He was arrested on the fifteenth on suspicion of violating the legislation.
In response to this incident, Minister of State for Science and Technology Takaichi known as on ministers to totally make sure the soundness and equity of analysis actions on the universities and analysis institutes below their jurisdiction at a ministerial assembly on the twentieth. In addition, on the twentieth, we are going to subject an identical discover to the heads of the related ministries and businesses.
At a press convention after the cupboard assembly, Minister Takaichi stated, “Leakage of information from national research and development agencies can damage national interests and is a very serious problem from the perspective of economic security. I would like you to establish the necessary system to ensure that information is securely protected, and to respond steadily.”