Research questions: What strategies can the US and Japan implement through their semiconductor policies and economic statecraft to deepen their strategic partnership and fortify supply chains to ensure technological dominance in the indopacific? How do US export controls negatively impact both the US and Japan’s semiconductor industries and hinder their progress? What are the areas of alignment and divergence between the US and Japan regarding trade policies, economic priorities, and technological standards?
The paper has to include: a thorough overview of US export controls and their impact on global semiconductor supply chains, overview of Japans export controls and their impact on global semiconductor supply chains, an analysis of US-Japan semiconductor partner ship, analysis of the US policies and regulations such as the BIS, Chips and Science Act, and the Committee on Foreign investment and it’s impact on the domestic industry and their relations with Japanese firms. The effects these policies and regulations have on international collaboration and market access. An overview of japans semiconductor initiatives (ASKA and MIRAI projects). An analysis of the Japanese ESPA act and its objectives and the challenges faced by Japanese semiconductor firms due to US export controls. Differences and similarities between the Chips and Science act and the ESPA act and how their approaches show the true intentions of each country. Mention specifically how Japan aims to integrate itself into the global supply chain and make itself indispensable while maintaining autonomy especially from the US in light of the conflict between the US and cChina. Japan aims to align itself with the US but also understand chinas power as a trade partner so it doesn’t want it pulled into this hegemony war.