The initiative, led by a government-backed project, aims to reduce reliance on imports and strengthen national security.

Japan will try to mine the seabed in its Exclusive Economic Zone. Like the United States, India and Australia, Japan wants to ...

Japan will begin test mining for rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1,900 kilometres (1,180 ...

While rare earth mineral trading generates modest revenue, their strategic value far outweighs market price as governments ...

Japan and the European Union will consider joint public-private partnerships as they look to reduce their reliance on China ...

Japan is preparing to stir a sleeping world. The goal isn’t oil or gas — it’s mud. Mud that’s packed with the rare earth ...

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright was in Ranchester, Wyoming, on Friday for the ribbon cutting to open the first U.S. rare ...

The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science ...

The United States and other countries will have to replicate China’s processing capabilities to dismantle one of Beijing’s ...

The US DoD’s half-a-billion-dollar equity investment into America’s only producing rare earths mine could rewrite the ...

China, the biggest holder of rare earths, is weaponising them by restricting the supply. Though it has hit the EV industry in ...