Saturday, December 23, 2017 | The Japan Times | 7 Established 1897 Chairperson and Publisher MINAKO KAMBARA SUEMATSU Incorporating The Japan Advertiser 1890-1940 President TAKEHARU TSUTSUMI The Japan Chronicle 1868-1940 Director and Executive Editor HIROYASU MIZUNO The Japan Mail 1870-1918 Managing Editor SAYURI DAIMON The Japan Times 1865-1870 Chief Editorial Writer TAKASHI KITAZUME opinionOpinion Desk:
[email protected] Accomplishments 5G: China’s dream to dominate world technology of shogi and go The threat from Beijing operate in China and forces those who do so to share their technology has long been highlights a convergence known. champions of interests between Intellectual property problem the U.S. and Europe As the world’s largest consumer of semicon- ductors and memory chips, China has col- EEditorial lected considerable influence in this sector. hogi champion Yoshiharu Habu this month THOMAS J. DUESTERBERG Part of its “knowledge bank” is due to Chi- became the first shogi player to hold all seven WASHINGTON nese firms regularly trying to violate patents THE GLOBALIST and other intellectual property. eisei lifetime titles of the game. Go champion Yuta If we want to protect our own industrial SIyama in October succeeded in grabbing all seven major U.S.-European cooperation on economic future, we should urgently take note of the go titles simultaneously for the second time. Their great issues is at a low ebb. Efforts to rekindle fact that many of these tactics are banned in accomplishments come at a time when human players interest in mutually advantageous policies the rules of the World Trade Organization.