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For me at least it helps to know that it's not somehow secretly connected to some American intelligency agency

Japan is not "connected to some American intelligency agency"??

If you receive any email from US agencies and you are a Japanese company you can just say “no thank you I’m not interested” and it will most likely stop there.

If you are US company you don’t have a choice as it is the law.

Mozilla, Google, Facebook, Cloudflare, Signal, all have to respect the local laws.

the connection is less direct, less direct connections imply increased safety.

Precisely the reason people obfuscate direct connections is so people like you believe this about their products.

People like me? Why thank you, I've always thought they didn't. Good to know.

Japan is part of the Five Eyes Plus alliance that has areed to share intelligence with the US ( https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/fourteen-eyes-countries ).

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