Japanese media: the rare calm day battle behind the marvelous

As Japanese companies over-reliance on China's current situation does not change, the Japanese Government for this is criticism that Japanese companies "Well, the pain is forgotten , over-reliance on China lacks a sense of crisis ." However, the Japanese industry hopes Sino-Japanese relations can be stabilized as soon as possible .

China in 2010 suddenly stopped rare earth exports to Japan , in Japan has become China's risks on behalf of symbols. And China in the East China Sea over the designated air defense identification zone by the end of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the Yasukuni Shrine in 2013 , but it does not appear the topic of rare earth. Article located asked: " Rare crisis has become over? "

The addition of very small things can change dramatically change the nature, rare earths are called "industrial vitamins ." Is widely used in hybrid cars , energy-saving appliances , light emitting diodes (LED) and smart phones and other products.


Suffered heavy losses embargo
"Nikkei News" article reviews the collision occurred in September 2010 , said in September 2010 , occurred in the East China Sea Chinese fishing boat collided with Japan Coast Guard patrol boat incident as an opportunity , China resorted to stop Japan's exports of rare earth rare earth " diplomatic card ." Dependence on Chinese rare earths up to nearly 90 percent of Japan's rare earth suddenly caught short , industry chaos. Until the state has been in short supply until the summer of 2011 , rare earth prices soared to 20 times .

Rare high prices also sparked the United States, Canada and Australia in the global rare earth mining boom. Japanese companies diversify procurement channels in order to intensify , the trading company "double day" from the fall of 2013 began importing rare earths from Australia. Toyota Tsusho is scheduled to start this year in India over rare earth production .

Accelerate technology development to reduce rare earth usage, recycling of rare earth extraction also appears to expand domestic waste equipment from "urban mines " in the . 2012 imports of rare earths to Japan last year , compared with almost halved , prices fell to fifth peaks. As Japanese companies to ensure that the rare earth reserves at the end of 2013, Sino-Japanese relations have cooled to avoid the confusion occurred.

The article said , now widely believed that " the biggest victims of the embargo is China itself ." Suddenly stop supplying not only lost the trust of the international community , in addition to reducing the impact of exports by volume, China has more than 100 rare earth companies were forced to sharply cut and cut . The weather the storm through self-help efforts in Japan becomes increasingly powerful. However , Extraordinary Professor Institute of Industrial Science , University of Tokyo Okabe withdraw special is that " Japanese companies in sourcing rare and can only be Chinese pinched neck ."

Article that traps hidden in the " rare earth" in this collectively . Although referred to as rare earth, but if broken , then the world is widely mined including seven kinds of light rare-earth and reserves of 10 kinds of heavy rare earth, a total of 17 species. After the collision, the Japanese companies to ensure that the rare-earth alternative sourcing mainly for the light rare earths, and heavy rare earth remains almost entirely dependent on Chinese exports.

As a representative of heavy rare earths , dysprosium indispensable in improving the high temperature performance of hybrid and pure electric vehicles equipped with a high-performance magnet aspects . Though as technology advances , the amount of dysprosium vehicle use has decreased, but the growing popularity of electric vehicles if the total amount is difficult to appear reduced.


Weak sense of crisis
As a national procurement from outside China heavy rare earth measures Sumitomo Heavy Rare Earth began preparations imported from Kazakhstan , but has yet to achieve delivery . For various reasons, if the supply interruption from China , Japan will lose a steady procurement of heavy rare earth means.

And light rare earth there are also risks . When used in glass polishing cerium , after the embargo affected by the collision of the growing popularity of alternative grinding methods significantly reduce the amount . Cerium- light rare-earth mine output accounted for about half of the mixture . If the maximum yield of cerium -based sales and reduce production plan will result in the same output of mines and high-performance neodymium magnet material for optical lenses reduce the liquidity of lanthanum .

Rare earth industry stakeholders said "Although Japanese companies after the collision has been trying to reduce the amount of rare earth , but due to the current development of new uses, but appeared to increase usage ."

The Japanese government official pointed out , " Japanese companies is forgotten the pain , the sense of crisis China 's dependence weakened . I hope to Abe visited the Yasukuni Shrine as an opportunity to once again sounded the alarm to the Japanese companies . " However, the Japanese industry is eager to supply and demand and the Sino-Japanese relations can be stabilized as soon as possible rare .

Japanese media on China for "blocking rare earth exports ," the groundless accusations , Chinese officials have made ​​it clear that the Ministry of Commerce , China 's rare earth resources only to maintain the existing 15 to 20 years of future demand . China is not the only country with the world's rare earth , but in the past few decades assumed the majority of the world's supply of rare earth character , and the results paid the price for the natural environment and the destruction of their own consumption of resources . China did not block exports of rare earths , it is impossible to continue to assume the role of the world's supply , or even upside down one day does not exclude dependence on imported rare earths.


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