{"id":506313,"date":"2026-01-10T14:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T14:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/506313\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T14:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T14:27:22","slug":"japan-needs-to-take-away-chinas-power-to-weaponize-rare-earths-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/506313\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan needs to take away China&#8217;s power to &#8216;weaponize&#8217; rare earths: finance minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/editor-s-picks\/interview\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Exclusive: Katayama envisions creating market of democracies with US, Europe<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/7\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20260109N Katayama interview\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said China&#8217;s ability to control rare earth supplies creates uncertainty for Japanese businesses.\u00a0(Photo by Manami Yamada)<\/p>\n<p>TAISHU YUASA<\/p>\n<p>January 10, 2026 03:45 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan should work with the U.S. and Europe to build a supply chain for rare earths and stop China from using the critical minerals as an economic weapon,\u00a0Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama told Nikkei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interview Exclusive: Katayama envisions creating market of democracies with US, Europe Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said China&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":506314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[226745,51692,64,25028,226746,79,525,170,37587,130590,6172,15096,16422,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-506313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-weaponize","tag-away","tag-business","tag-chinas","tag-earths","tag-economy","tag-finance","tag-japan","tag-minister","tag-needs","tag-power","tag-rare","tag-take","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115871275036737001","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}