Japan
JP · actor dossier
Supply-chain position
An early mover on diversification following the 2010 rare-earth shock. Supports stockpiling and offtake through JOGMEC (including long-standing investment in Lynas) to reduce single-source dependence.
Framing posture
Frames policy as economic security and supply diversification.
Framing anchors (4)
How this actor justifies its policy, in its own words.
diversifying the supply sources which are currently concentrated to China
JOGMEC's stated purpose for the additional Lynas investment and heavy-REE offtake.
日本のレアアース安定供給に資するプロジェクトとして期待されていますEN the project is expected to contribute to securing a stable supply of rare earths for Japan
Japanese original from the JOGMEC release; the English is JOGMEC's own published translation of the same sentence in its English edition, so provenance is 'official' rather than 'self'. Both language editions were re-read at promotion (2026-08-12). The release carries a second framing sentence (日本の重要鉱物のサプライチェーン強靭化, economic security) which is spoken by Toyota Tsusho, the corporate partner in this joint government-industry announcement, and is deliberately not coded: framing claims record the government's official presentation, and actor 'japan' may not be anchored to a corporate voice.
この法律は、国際情勢の複雑化、社会経済構造の変化等に伴い、安全保障を確保するためには、経済活動に関して行われる国家及び国民の安全を害する行為を未然に防止する重要性が増大していることに鑑み、経済施策を一体的に講ずることによる安全保障の確保の推進に関する基本的な方針を策定するとともに、安全保障の確保に関する経済施策として、特定重要物資の安定的な供給の確保及び特定社会基盤役務の安定的な提供の確保に関する制度並びに特定重要技術の開発支援及び特許出願の非公開に関する制度を創設することにより、安全保障の確保に関する経済施策を総合的かつ効果的に推進することを目的とする。EN The purpose of this Act is, in view of the growing importance of preventing in advance acts harmful to the security of the State and its people carried out in relation to economic activity in order to ensure national security amid increasing complexity in the international situation and changes in socio-economic structures, to formulate a basic policy on promoting the securing of national security through the integrated implementation of economic measures, and to establish, as economic measures relating to the securing of national security, systems for ensuring the stable supply of specified critical materials and the stable provision of specified essential infrastructure services, together with systems for supporting the development of specified critical technologies and for non-disclosure of patent applications, thereby comprehensively and effectively promoting economic measures relating to the securing of national security.
Article 1 of Act No. 43 of 2022, verbatim from the e-Gov statutory database. Translation is this project's own — no official English version of this Act was located in this session, which is why quoteEnSource is "self" rather than "official". The sentence is the Act's single purpose provision and it ties economic measures to security explicitly, which is why both categories are coded.
我が国の重要鉱物の安定供給確保を図る上で効果的と認められる取組EN undertakings recognized as effective in securing the stable supply of critical minerals to Japan
JOGMEC's description of what the certified plans it funds must be. It is the programme's framing, not this certification's own, so it anchors only the first certification in the corpus; the later three carry no framing claim rather than repeating it, which would count the same passage four times.
Events (7)
Certification of Japan New Metals' critical-minerals supply-assurance plan for tungsten under the Economic Security Promotion Act
ActiveCertification of Santoku's critical-minerals supply-assurance plan for rare earths under the Economic Security Promotion Act
ActiveEstablishment of a Special Purpose Company for Heavy Rare Earth Development in the Republic of Namibia and Investment by JOGMEC
ActiveCertification of Shin-Etsu Chemical's critical-minerals supply-assurance plan for rare earths under the Economic Security Promotion Act
ActiveCertification of Allied Material's critical-minerals supply-assurance plan for tungsten under the Economic Security Promotion Act
ActiveJARE additional equity investment in Lynas and heavy rare earth offtake
ActiveAct on the Promotion of Ensuring National Security through Integrated Implementation of Economic Measures
In forceCapital and control
Financial instruments this actor provides and control clauses it issues.
Financial instruments (7)
Open in Capital →Lynas Rare Earths Limited
AUD200 millionLynas mid-term growth plan: light rare earths production capacity expansion and heavy rare earths separation commencement
Lynas Rare Earths Limited
No amount statedJARE additional equity investment in Lynas and heavy rare earth offtake
株式会社アライドマテリアル
aboutJPY7.5 billionNew tungsten reduction and carburisation facilities to raise production of tungsten powder and tungsten carbide powder.
日本新金属株式会社
aboutJPY2 billionExpanded tungsten hydrometallurgical refining facilities in Japan.
TJ Namibia Rare Earths Corporation (special purpose company established by Toyota Tsusho)
up toCAD47.668 millionLofdal heavy rare earth development project
株式会社三徳
aboutJPY800 millionNew smelting facilities in Japan to increase rare earth production.
信越化学工業株式会社
aboutJPY17.5 billionNew smelting facilities in Japan to increase rare earth production.