The ruling Liberal Democratic Party worked out a proposal in December to call for scrapping the Law on Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., etc. (NTT Law) in 2025.
Leaders in Japanese business and political circles are grieving the loss of Kazuo Inamori, founder of Kyocera Corp. and KDDI Corp., long revered as a charismatic corporate leader and backer of a two-party system allowing regime change.
Doubts about Huawei open doors for Japan s telecom players Suspicions that Huawei Technologies telecom gear could serve as back door for Chinese spying have helped breathe new life into a Japanese tech ecosystem long thought moribund.
A number of companies that flourished under the wing Japan s former domestic telecom monopoly, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corp. which was later privatized and split up to form the NTT group is attempting to gain a foothold in global markets.
In Europe, the U.K. government s move to bar Huawei from its 5G wireless network is a hopeful sign for a group of tightly linked Japanese manufacturers that once supplied NTT s forerunner. In November, London unveiled a plan to remove high-risk vendors read Huawei from its 5G network and offered financial support to Japanese electronics maker NEC to help build up 5G networks in Britain.