{"id":320966,"date":"2026-02-28T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/320966\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T01:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:00:16","slug":"what-is-japans-potential-for-domestic-rare-earth-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/320966\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Japan\u2019s potential for domestic rare earth mining?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rare earth elements extracted from the sea floor surrounding a remote Japanese island earlier this month could someday provide Japan with a domestic source of the metals as part of a broader effort to reduce its reliance on imported rare earths, especially from China.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi\u2019s government aims to eventually mine and industrialize rare earths, used in manufacturing everything from camera lenses to jet engines.<\/p>\n<p>But the timing, investment costs, and economic viability of the project have yet to be determined. The following is what we know so far about Japan\u2019s potential for rare earths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rare earth elements extracted from the sea floor surrounding a remote Japanese island earlier this month could someday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,114,113,61,60,28981,12983,1628],"class_list":["post-320966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-minerals","tag-rare-earths","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}