{"id":144006,"date":"2026-01-12T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144006"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:00:12","slug":"japan-firms-seen-stockpiling-rare-earths-as-tokyo-looks-to-g7-in-face-of-china-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144006","title":{"rendered":"Japan firms seen \u2018stockpiling\u2019 rare earths as Tokyo looks to G7 in face of China controls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFears of China choking off exports of critical minerals to Japan amid a deepening political dispute have set off industry alarms and prompted Tokyo to elevate the issue at a G7 gathering of finance ministers this week, despite Beijing\u2019s assurances that civilian trade would be spared.<br \/>\nJapanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said last week that she would attend the Group of Seven event in Washington on Monday with the \u201crisk of a rare-earth-supply interruption from China in mind\u201d, the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/global-economy\/article\/3339615\/japan-firms-seen-stockpiling-rare-earths-tokyo-looks-g7-face-china-controls?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFears of China choking off exports of critical minerals to Japan amid a deepening political dispute have set off industry alarms and prompted Tokyo&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144006"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}