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Japan is an East Asian island nation and major global economy, a key U.S. treaty ally hosting American military forces under its security alliance.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
Australia cut refining capacity 6.9% a year over a decade as China added 2.3% a year, Energy Institute data show. China's renewed fuel export ban now falls on importers that shut their own plants, just as two wars squeeze diesel and jet fuel supply.
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Chinese customs figures for August show every rare-earth and critical-mineral line tracked into Japan below year-earlier volume for a second month, with the declines running from 11.2 per cent to 94.7 per cent.
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Yttrium's export rules survived the Busan truce, and the two shipments the United States has received since February's coating-line stoppages add up to 89 tonnes against a world market estimated at 10,000 to 15,000 tonnes a year.
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Pezeshkian, speaking days after the weekend's exchange of fire, says Iran will reciprocate immediately if Washington returns to the June memorandum. Restoring it means restarting a 60-day clock that has already run out.
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The doomsday scenarios never arrived, and because nothing broke, Asia's importers are funding new routes and new suppliers out of capital budgets rather than waiting out a spike they could have hedged. Halving Hormuz still has an if attached.
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Buybacks at the long end, euros sold instead of Treasuries, Japan borrowing at an obscure Fed window. Deutsche Bank calls it soft-form repression. Duration holders pay for it in currency.
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At least $4bn an operation against more than $40 trillion outstanding is curve management, not debt management. The demand-side problem sits offshore.
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New orders at their strongest since January 2018 and a record 11.5 trillion yen of July exports turn a thematic trade into an order book, on a single source that dates its own data loosely.
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July exports rose 23.2% year on year and chipmaking equipment shipments jumped 49.1%. Total export volume grew 5.2%. The difference is price and currency.
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Annualized GDP growth fell from a revised 1.8% in Q1 2026 to roughly 0.3% in Q2 while capital spending sat at zero. Households were not the weak link.
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