Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), speaks during a press conference at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. (Franck Robichon/Pool/AFP/Getty Images/TNS) 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 U.S. opioid crisis.