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To cut reliance on China, Japan eyes bespoke ship for rare earth extraction

South China Morning Post · · 167 words · By Julian Ryall
Geopolitical Competition Economic Independence National Security
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4 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Japan eyes dedicated ship to lead deep-sea rare earths race, cut reliance on China”
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Multiple web search results, including reports from The Hindu and other news sources, confirm Japan's efforts to retrieve rare earth mud from the deep seabed specifically to reduce dependence on China.
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web search NEUTRAL — Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions, and around 75% of its terrain is mountainous and heavily forested, concentrating its agriculture and highly urbanized…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 day ago · Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of the Asian continent. It lies east of China, the Korean Peninsula, and Russia, and consists of…
https://www.britannica.com/place/Japan
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web search NEUTRAL — The official site of Japan National Tourism Organization is your ultimate Japan guide with tourist information for Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Hokkaido and other top Japan holiday destinations. We…
https://www.japan.travel/en/
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“Japan is very poor in natural resources”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general descriptions of Japan's geography and tourism, but does not explicitly state or quantify the lack of natural resources.
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web search NEUTRAL — Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions, and around 75% of its terrain is mountainous and heavily forested, concentrating its agriculture and highly urbanized…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 day ago · Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of the Asian continent. It lies east of China, the Korean Peninsula, and Russia, and consists of…
https://www.britannica.com/place/Japan
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web search NEUTRAL — The official site of Japan National Tourism Organization is your ultimate Japan guide with tourist information for Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Hokkaido and other top Japan holiday destinations. We…
https://www.japan.travel/en/
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“we have the sixth-largest EEZ in the world”
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The claim states Japan has the sixth-largest EEZ. However, Wikipedia explicitly states that Japan has the eighth-largest EEZ in the world, while Indonesia is listed as having the 6th largest.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the explora…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Japan has the eighth-largest exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the world. The total area of Japan is about 380 thousand km2. Japan's EEZ area is vast and the territorial waters (including the Seto Inla…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone_of_Jap…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Russian Federation has the fourth-largest exclusive economic zone of 7,566,673 km2 (2,921,509 sq mi) with 200 nautical miles (370.4 km; 230.2 mi) from its shores.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone_of_Rus…
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“the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology to deploy a research ship in February to the remote island of Minamitorishima to retrieve rare earth sediments from a depth of 5,700 metres (18,700 feet)”
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Multiple sources confirm that JAMSTEC used the vessel Chikyu in February to recover rare earth sediments from the deep seabed near Minamitorishima at depths of approximately 5,000-6,000 meters.
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web search NEUTRAL — Minamitorishima area rare-earth deposits.The calculated rare-earth element and yttrium content for the research area was more than 16 million tons (average = 964 ppm).[7][8].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamitorishima
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web search NEUTRAL — The successful retrieval of rare-earth mud marks a significant milestone in Japan’s efforts to secure critical mineral resources and reduce dependence on China.
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/japan-retrieves-ra…
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web search NEUTRAL — On February 1, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) announced that its deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu successfully recovered sediment rich in rare earth elements from approx…
https://rareearthexchanges.com/news/japans-deep-sea-rare-ear…
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