Insights
Japan's latest construction-workforce budget request is a warning for foreign companies planning factories, hotels, logistics sites, stores, clinics, or data centers: buildability is now part of market-entry risk.
Japan's latest supplier-enforcement case is a reminder that manufacturing due diligence is not only about price, quality, and delivery. Foreign companies using Japanese suppliers should check who owns, stores, maintains, and pays for dies, molds, jigs, and other idle production assets before problems surface.