RE:Canada/Japan Battery Metals Talks...Here's a better link to that article Craving, your post broke up. Some sites are strange like that.
Important to know as Mark has said in Crux interviews that Japanese trading houses are one of the possible debt financiers. That's some major money power.
Wonder if they were at PDAC ?
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan and Canada are discussing collaboration on building strong supply chains for battery metals, Japan's industry minister, Yasutoshi Nishimura, said on Tuesday.
A public-private mission led by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and including 16 companies that work with batteries visited Canada last week for talks on building sustainable and resilient supply chains, he said.
"Canada has an abundance of battery metals and good market access to the United States," Nishimura told a news conference.
"Canada is one of the most important countries for Japan when it comes to strengthening our supply chains of storage battery metals," he said.
He declined to give details of the talks but said he would take various opportunities, including an upcoming G7 ministerial meeting, to reinforce cooperation with Canada.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/japan-canada-talks-over-collaboration-battery-metals-supply-chain-2023-03-14/