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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Premium Bookmarks Creator Studio Articles Profile More Post kristen @kristen__cheung Article See new posts Conversation James RineyCoral Capital @james_riney Why Japan Needs and Leads Nuclear Energy 3 17 50 11K Japan was dealt a bad hand. It is an industrial superpower trapped on a resource-poor archipelago, devoid of oil, gas, or coal. For the last century, this geological reality has dictated Japan’s geopolitical destiny. It drove the nation into war with the United States in the 1940s, and shocked the economy during the oil shock of the 1970s. In 2022, this vulnerability was exposed once again. The “triple punch” of the Ukraine war driving up energy prices, the widening interest rate gap between the US and Japan, and the resulting collapse of the Yen battered the economy.  Japan is in a tight spot when it comes to energy sovereignty, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Japa

@james_riney: Why Japan Needs and Leads Nuclear Energy Japan was dealt a bad hand. It is an industrial superpower trapped on a resource-poor archipelago, devoid of oil, gas, or coal. For the last century, this geological reality has dictated Japan’s geopolitical destiny. It drove the nation into war with the United States in the 1940s, and shocked the economy during the oil shock of the 1970s. In 2022, this vulnerability was exposed once again. The “triple punch” of the Ukraine war driving up energy prices, the widening interest rate gap between the US and Japan, and the resulting collapse o

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