List of items restricted by Japanese Export Control law revised and enforced in May 2008

Effective on May 15, 2008, newly revised Japanese export control list will be enforced. The new list was announced by METI in March 26, 2008. The revised points are mainly in newly added items as controlled products, providing new interpretation of items, definition and specification change for current restricted products, etc. This revision is to reflect the latest update of world wide control regimes, such as Wassennar Arrangement, MTCR (Missile Technology Control Regime), NSG (Nuclear Suppliers Group), and AG (Australia Group) within these couple of years. The change is not for principle of export control, but the addition and change of items list, therefore the classification of export items need to be re-assessed by manufacturer or by exporter. 　(As for Wassennar Arrangement, please be noted this change reflects only amendment in 2005 and in 2006. The agreement on Dec. 2007 in WA is NOT reflected yet.)

There are hundreds of changes in the list. Below items are some major samples of products newly added in the updated list in electronics and IT industries. Company needs to get export license by METI in exporting such products out of Japan.

Missile related items
Thermal batteries designed or modified for missile or unmanned aerial vehicle

Electronics
- High energy devices: ‘Cells’ (Terms and definitions changed from ‘Battery’ to ‘ Cell’)
Primary cells' having an 'energy density' exceeding 550 Wh/kg at 20°C;
Secondary cells' having an 'energy density' exceeding 250 Wh/kg at 20°C
- Imprint lithography equipment capable of producing features of 180 nm or less;

Telecommunication
- Jamming equipment specially designed or modified to intentionally and selectively interfere with, deny, inhibit, degrade or seduce mobile telecommunication service and specially designed components
- Passive Coherent Location (PCL) systems or equipment, specially designed for detecting and tracking moving objects by measuring reflections of ambient radio frequency emissions, supplied by non-radar transmitters
- Information security systems, equipment and components Designed or modified to use "quantum cryptography"

Please be noted above are just major samples, exporters need to fully review whole list for classification, which is available in METI and CISTEC web site. In classification operation, ‘Parameter sheet’ is useful check sheet, which is published by CISTEC (Center for Information on Security Trade Control). The revised parameter sheet will be available on May 27, according to CISTEC.