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  "corpus": {
    "revision": "2026-11-03",
    "legalStatusCutoff": "2026-11-03",
    "view": "current_corpus_revision",
    "notice": "Curated corpus revision, not source freshness or historical known-as-of coverage. Financial histories retain their own status dates."
  },
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        ],
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      },
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        "sourceId": "src-meti-critical-minerals-certified-plans",
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        "note": "製錬 (smelting and refining) is read as refining; the list does not say whether separation is included."
      }
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        }
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          "evidence": "explicit",
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          "note": "Named as 独立行政法人エネルギー・金属鉱物資源機構 (本部：東京都港区). 独立行政法人 is an incorporated administrative agency, a body of the Japanese state."
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        {
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          "note": null
        }
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        },
        {
          "role": "recipient",
          "recordId": "fin-jp-jogmec-shin-etsu-rare-earth-grant"
        },
        {
          "role": "designation_holder",
          "recordId": "dsg-jp-espa-shin-etsu-rare-earth"
        }
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          "sourceId": "src-meti-critical-minerals-certified-plans",
          "supports": [
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          ],
          "evidence": "explicit",
          "locator": "Section 4, 認定供給確保計画",
          "note": "Named as the certified business in its Japanese form only."
        },
        {
          "sourceId": "src-meti-critical-minerals-certified-plans",
          "supports": [
            "country"
          ],
          "evidence": "ambiguous",
          "locator": "Section 4",
          "note": "A 株式会社 (kabushiki kaisha) certified under Japan's Economic Security Promotion Act; the list gives no address."
        }
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      "valueRole": "commitment",
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      "projectRelationship": "directly_attributable",
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        "currency": "JPY",
        "qualifier": "approximately",
        "amountAsStated": "※助成額は約175億円",
        "currencyBasis": "stated",
        "basisNote": null,
        "basisLabel": null
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      "amountBasis": "current_recorded_terms_not_historical_totals",
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      "locations": [
        {
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          "subnational": null,
          "asStated": "日本国内"
        }
      ],
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      ],
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          "note": "METI's list gives the subsidy with the plan certified on 令和8年5月19日."
        },
        {
          "status": "decided",
          "date": null,
          "sourceId": "src-jogmec-critical-minerals-grants",
          "note": "Listed among JOGMEC's grant decisions (交付決定事業) for 令和8年度; the decision date is not stated."
        }
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      "legacyPhysicalObservations": [],
      "terms": [
        {
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          "value": "50",
          "qualifier": "exact",
          "currency": null,
          "unit": "% of the applicant's cost of the undertaking",
          "asStated": "当該取組に係る申請者負担額の1／2の助成金",
          "sourceId": "src-jogmec-critical-minerals-grants",
          "note": "The programme-wide rate; the list does not restate it per plan."
        }
      ],
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      "relationships": [],
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          "sourceId": "src-meti-critical-minerals-certified-plans",
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            "location",
            "materials",
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          ],
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          "locator": "Section 4, plan ２０２６重要鉱物第１号－１",
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          "sourceId": "src-jogmec-critical-minerals-grants",
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            "legal_authority",
            "terms",
            "status"
          ],
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          "note": null
        }
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      "notes": "The amount is approximate as both lists print it (約, \"about\"); the yen figure is 億円 × 100,000,000."
    }
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    {
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      "eventId": "evt-jp-espa-shin-etsu-rare-earth-2026",
      "programmeId": "prg-jp-espa-critical-minerals-certification",
      "projectId": "prj-jp-shin-etsu-rare-earth",
      "relationship": "project_designation_standing_not_money",
      "projectNameAsStated": "日本国内に、製錬設備を新設することで、レアアースの生産を増強する。",
      "holderOrgIds": [
        "org-shin-etsu-chemical"
      ],
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          "note": "認定日 令和8年5月19日; 供給確保計画認定番号 ２０２６重要鉱物第１号－１."
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            "materials",
            "status",
            "location"
          ],
          "evidence": "explicit",
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          "note": null
        },
        {
          "sourceId": "src-meti-critical-minerals-certified-plans",
          "supports": [
            "stages"
          ],
          "evidence": "ambiguous",
          "locator": "Section 4, plan ２０２６重要鉱物第１号－１",
          "note": "製錬 (smelting and refining) is read as refining; the list does not say whether separation is included."
        }
      ]
    }
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      "jurisdiction": "japan",
      "issuingBody": "METI / JOGMEC",
      "titleEn": "Certification of Shin-Etsu Chemical's critical-minerals supply-assurance plan for rare earths under the Economic Security Promotion Act",
      "titleOriginal": "経済安全保障推進法に基づく重要鉱物の供給確保計画の認定（信越化学工業株式会社、認定番号２０２６重要鉱物第１号－１）",
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      "date": "2026-05-19",
      "policyStatus": "active",
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        "src-meti-critical-minerals-certified-plans",
        "src-jogmec-critical-minerals-grants"
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    }
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  "financePackageReferences": [],
  "unknowns": [
    "No project-native source-reviewed industrial milestone is published. Attributed activity in financing histories remains a separate evidence class; no exact milestone date or facility-wide conclusion is inferred.",
    "Historical amount review is incomplete. Current amounts cannot be read as a time series of earlier commitments.",
    "Structural links and shared materials do not demonstrate that a government measure caused an industrial outcome."
  ],
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    {
      "id": "src-jogmec-critical-minerals-grants",
      "title": "重要鉱物助成金交付事業",
      "publisher": "独立行政法人エネルギー・金属鉱物資源機構 (JOGMEC)",
      "url": "https://www.jogmec.go.jp/activities/metal/critical-grant.html",
      "language": "ja",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "publishedOn": null,
      "accessedOn": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "src-jogmec-lofdal-en",
      "title": "Establishment of a Special Purpose Company for Heavy Rare Earth Development in the Republic of Namibia and Investment by JOGMEC",
      "publisher": "Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC) / Toyota Tsusho Corporation",
      "url": "https://www.jogmec.go.jp/english/news/release/release_00451.html",
      "language": "en",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "official_translation",
      "publishedOn": "2026-07-30",
      "accessedOn": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "src-jogmec-lofdal-ja",
      "title": "ナミビア共和国におけるレアアース探査・開発事業を行う特定目的会社の設立およびJOGMECの出資について",
      "publisher": "独立行政法人エネルギー・金属鉱物資源機構 (JOGMEC) / 豊田通商株式会社",
      "url": "https://www.jogmec.go.jp/news/release/release_01320.html",
      "language": "ja",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "publishedOn": "2026-07-30",
      "accessedOn": "2026-10-03"
    },
    {
      "id": "src-meti-critical-minerals-certified-plans",
      "title": "重要鉱物（経済安全保障推進法に基づく認定供給確保計画）",
      "publisher": "経済産業省 (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan)",
      "url": "https://www.meti.go.jp/policy/economy/economic_security/metal/index.html",
      "language": "ja",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "publishedOn": null,
      "accessedOn": "2026-09-23"
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  "limitations": [
    "Policy contexts here parent existing finance or designation records; a shared material or date never creates a causal edge.",
    "Coannounced controls are announcement siblings only, not project-specific restrictions or effects.",
    "Direct project attribution and nonallocative association are different. No individual monetary allocation, financial sum or payment conclusion is authorized.",
    "Financing statuses describe the current corpus revision. Legacy implementation observations require scoped review and are not project-native milestones.",
    "A milestone's event/target date, publication/access horizon and reviewer date are separate. A planned target is not automatically occurred.",
    "An absent reviewed milestone means no approved entry in SMPT, not that the facility is inactive or failed.",
    "Amounts retain current source-stated terms, original currency and exact decimal strings. This packet computes no historical financial totals or project-wide monetary allocation.",
    "Published source review does not establish independent on-site verification. Source, financial-status, occurrence, target and review dates remain distinct."
  ]
}