Japan to put critical goods plants under state control during crisis

War Preparations. USA says jump and Japan asks how high.

Japan is set to introduce a system to temporarily place factories under state control in the event of a contingency to safeguard supply chains of critical materials such as semiconductors and batteries, the government said.

The government aims to start the system from around the fall of next year to better protect the country from contingencies such as infectious disease outbreaks and disruptions in the supply of raw materials.

This makes absolutely no sense. We need to control the supply of semiconductors and batteries to stop infectious disease in its tracks?!

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War Preparations. USA says jump and Japan asks how high

Indeed, the Japan-US alliance poses a significant obstacle to Chinese imperialism and is essential for maintaining peace in Asia.

Recent Japanese LDP government always tries to expand their authority on the pretext of "emergency". But, they are always incompetence, cannot even sufficiently respond to even frequent domestic natural disaster.