The 15-year effort by Japan is a model for countries now scrambling to reduce their dependence on Beijing’s critical metals.

Last month Takaichi Sanae, Japan’s prime minister, said that an invasion of Taiwan could cross the threshold that requires a ...

A 15-year strategy of subsidies, overseas partnerships and political risk-taking shows how Tokyo slowly loosened Beijing’s ...

Over the weekend, military tensions between China and Japan escalated after Chinese military fighter jets radar-locked onto ...

The initiative underscores the degree to which the Trump administration considers China’s near monopoly in rare earths – ...

President Donald Trump is assembling a coalition of US allies across the globe to challenge China’s dominance over rare earth ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan and the United States will jointly study developing rare earth mining in the waters around Minamitori Island in the Pacific, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on ...

From warning tourists to halting seafood imports, China has followed a well-worn playbook in punishing Japan for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks linking a Taiwan conflict to her country’s ...

Yttrium plays a critical role in everything from aircraft engines to semiconductors. China controls the vast majority of the market—and that’s not changing any time soon.

Are the most strategic resources of the 21st century more powerful than oil when it comes to shaping global alliances? In Tokyo’s Akasaka Palace, US President Donald Trump and Japan’s newly elected ...

Creating a supply chain for the metals elsewhere is 'humanly possible' but requires ‘some real strategery,’ USA Rare Earth's ...

Mount Weld, located near the Great Victoria Desert, contains the largest deposit of rare earths outside China. The shallow ...