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Japan reinvents industry policy to protect technologies and supply chains

By Sachiko Sakamaki ( December 4, 2025, 03:04 GMT | Comment) -- Japan is recalibrating its industrial policy to safeguard critical technologies and secure domestic supplies of strategic materials, amid escalating geopolitical tensions and widening export controls by major powers. Alongside revisions to the Economic Security Promotion Act, the government is seeking to shift corporate managers’ mindsets — urging companies to work with regulators and domestic peers before allowing key technologies to move overseas. With China relations deteriorating under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, Tokyo is laying the foundation for a more coordinated public-private industrial strategy, while navigating pressure from the US and China.Japan is recalibrating its industrial policy to safeguard critical technologies and secure domestic supplies of strategic materials, amid escalating geopolitical tensions and widening export controls by major powers....

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