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Comment: Japanese companies reviewing supply chains, amid rising US-China trade tensions

By Sachiko Sakamaki
  • 10 Apr 2023 04:15
  • 10 Apr 2023 04:15
After building global supply chains over the past several decades, many Japanese companies are now reviewing and realigning them, as new trade restrictions pop up amid rising tensions between the US and China.
The confrontation between Japan’s US ally, which is its second-largest trading partner, and China, its largest trading

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Sachiko Sakamaki

Senior Correspondent, Tokyo


Sachiko covers antitrust, mergers and acquisitions, privacy and data security, as well as patent disputes related to connected cars. She has an undergraduate degree from Waseda University in Tokyo and a master's degree in communications from United States International (now Alliant International) University in California. She previously worked as a journalist for Time magazine, the Far Eastern Economic Review, Bloomberg News, and the Washington Post in Japan.

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