Another huge player in Lithium! Another move supporting my belief we are in the infancy stages of a full blown Bull Market in the lithium Sector. Japanese public and private entities will develop supply chains in Canada for electric vehicles that encompass extracting and processing key minerals as well as battery production as the Canadian government provides subsidies and other support to increase supply capacity. Tokyo sees the initiative as both strengthening its economic security and increasing North American sales of Japanese EVs. Japan's trade minister, Yasutoshi Nishimura, will visit Canada on Sept. 21 and sign a memorandum of understanding with the country's minister of energy and natural resources, Jonathan Wilkinson, that covers battery supply chains. The first expected area of cooperation involves the extraction of nickel and lithium in Canada by the state-owned Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security and others. Though Canada boasts large reserves of these minerals, it faces technical and human resource challenges in increasing production capacity