MONDAY LEADMonday Lead / Resources & Economic Security
METI, trading houses and JOGMEC are looking north as Japan’s resource security story reaches Greenland’s mineral frontier.
June 15, 2026 / Japan.co.jp Monday Edition
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Defense Industry / Technology
GCAP is not only a fighter-jet program. It is industrial politics over design authority, software and supply chains.
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Economic Security / Investment
Japan wants capital, but it also wants to protect chips, communications, AI and defense technology. Screening is entering a new phase.
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Defense Industry / Drones
Large drones are not only flying machines. They are test beds for data sovereignty and international defense production.
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Science / Health
A catheter-delivered iPS heart-cell trial asks whether regenerative medicine can move toward less-invasive cardiology.
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Local Government / Data
When public finance becomes a map, residents can see local strengths, weaknesses and trade-offs more clearly.
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Politics / Social Media
Japan’s next election-law debate asks where free posting ends and responsibility for fairness begins.
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Culture / Rights
Anime is not only play. It is industry, authorship, copyright and Japan’s cultural diplomacy.
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Food / Regional Industry
Snow, rice terraces, satoyama and a new brewer’s vision reshape the story of sake in Niigata.
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Nightlife / Culture
Bar Trench’s Kyoto move turns a Tokyo cocktail institution into a story about taste, travel and craft.
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