Japan renews Indo-Pacific strategy, focusing on supply chain resilience

Takaichi highlights energy, critical materials and building AI and data infrastructure

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi addresses the media in Hanoi on May 2. © Kyodo

HANOI -- Japan's new foreign policy will emphasize economic security, including strengthening energy and critical materials supply chains, in an updated version of the "free and open Indo-Pacific" concept, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced Saturday.