{"id":1959,"date":"2025-07-03T17:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/japan-plans-world-first-deep-sea-mineral-extraction\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T17:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:45:09","slug":"japan-plans-world-first-deep-sea-mineral-extraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/japan-plans-world-first-deep-sea-mineral-extraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan plans &#8216;world first&#8217; deep-sea mineral extraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Japan will from January attempt to extract rare earth minerals from the ocean floor in the deepest trial of its kind, the director of a government innovation program said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week the country pledged to work with the United States, India and Australia to ensure a stable supply of critical minerals, as concern grows over China&rsquo;s dominance in resources vital to new technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Rare earths &mdash; 17 metals difficult to extract from the Earth&rsquo;s crust &mdash; are used in everything from electric vehicles to hard drives, wind turbines and missiles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Japan plans &lsquo;world first&rsquo; deep-sea mineral extraction<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan will from January attempt to extract rare earth minerals from the ocean floor in the deepest trial of its kind, the director of a government innovation program said Thursday. Earlier this week the country pledged to work with the United States, India and Australia to ensure a stable supply of critical minerals, as concern&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/japan-plans-world-first-deep-sea-mineral-extraction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Japan plans &#8216;world first&#8217; deep-sea mineral extraction&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}