A look at Japan's efforts to counter chip supply chain disruptions, including investing in domestic production and seeking a coalition with the US and the EU
As it reckons with supply chain vulnerabilities, the country is spending billions to revitalize domestic production and seeking to form a coalition with “like-minded” nations.
At some point, future historians will ponder how the US, Japan, etc. (gov't, military, and business alike) allowed the production of strategically critical resource to be concentrated on one small island off the coast of a potentially hostile power. https://www.nytimes.com/...
The chip shortfall — a blow to “the head” of Japan's economy, in the words of Yoshihiro Seki, a lawmaker who leads a study group on semiconductors — woke up the country to the fragility of the supply chains that undergird its most important industries. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Japan has begun working with “allies and friendly nations” to build a semiconductor supply chain that is better insulated from geopolitical instability and disasters. https://www.nytimes.com/...