2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Rare Earths and Japan: Traditional Vulnerability Reconsidered
verfasst von : Kyoko Hatakeyama
Erschienen in: The Political Economy of Rare Earth Elements
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Rare Earth Elements (REE) have become an indispensable component of modern life. Commodities containing rare earth, such as personal computers, hybrid cars, smart phones, and tablets, are now an essential part of daily life. A dependency on such high-tech products will most likely only increase in the future. Several forecasts show that the global demand for light REE and heavy REE are projected to rise (Humphries, 2013, p. 4).1