Chinese Spies, Smuggled Drugs Fuel Takaichi’s Security Push

Chinese Spies, Smuggled Drugs Fuel Takaichi’s Security Push Chinese spies stealing Japanese industrial secrets in boardrooms. Chip smugglers ferrying Nvidia’s prized artificial intelligence semiconductors via Japan. Drug gangs quietly slipping fentanyl across Japan’s borders to a US opioid crisis. Across a range of industries, Japan’s economic-security vulnerabilities have been on display in a slew of recent incidents. The cases show how foreign actors increasingly see Japan as an attractive target — and, in some instances, a convenient gateway — for espionage and other illicit activities.