The Iran War Has Finally Exposed Japan’s Achilles Heel

Global energy crises often act as severe stress tests that expose deep, structural fragilities in global supply chains that are erstwhile ignored. Such crises reveal weaknesses that extend far beyond fuel availability, causing systemic disruptions to industrial manufacturing, trade routes and food security. A good case in point is Germany, which effectively boxed itself into a corner with its decades-long energy policies.  Before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, successive German governments pursued an energy policy that significantly…