Who controls compute supply chains? Looking into Japan as an underexplored case

Published on June 1, 2026 1:11 PM GMTThis post is part of a comparative project on East Asia compute governance, initiated as part of the inaugural round of AI Gov Sprints. Many thanks to David Sanchez Garcia, who led this project and whose feedback greatly benefited this piece, and to all who gave feedback on earlier drafts. This post was lightly edited for flow using Claude; all ideas and arguments are my own. All mistakes, too, are my own. A lot of compute governance discourse focuses on the ...