{"id":300852,"date":"2026-02-25T04:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300852\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T04:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:06:11","slug":"japan-to-subsidize-rare-earth-recycling-push-reducing-reliance-on-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300852\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan to subsidize rare-earth recycling push, reducing reliance on China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/supply-chain\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Supply Chain<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Environment Ministry to help fund infrastructure for demonstration projects<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/2.jpeg\" alt=\"20260223N neodymium\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Neodymium is a rare-earth element that can be extracted for reuse from discarded items like electric motors. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>MASATOSHI IDA<\/p>\n<p>February 24, 2026 22:49 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan plans to offer subsidies beginning in fiscal 2026 for infrastructure to be used in recycling rare-earth materials,\u00a0including equipment for transport, storage and testing, to ensure a stable domestic supply\u00a0and\u00a0reduce\u00a0dependence on Chinese imports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Supply Chain Environment Ministry to help fund infrastructure for demonstration projects Neodymium is a rare-earth element that can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[607,273,1759,111,139,69,15400,58516,3354,12068,4889,147,165179],"class_list":{"0":"post-300852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-japan","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-push","15":"tag-rare-earth","16":"tag-recycling","17":"tag-reducing","18":"tag-reliance","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-subsidize"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}