https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/16/asia/japan-rare-earth-metals-find-china-economy-trnd/index.html
Japan finds major source of rare earth elements, will throw monkey wrench into China's monopoly. Will be game changer, a really big deal.
The US has reopened rare earth mines but are way behind in any production but this Japanese island will change everything for the better, my guess is rare earths will be half price when Japan gets production pumped up.
It is said we will have literally hundreds of years of rare earths from that one find.