East Asia
Japan
EU Compliance · Geopolitical Risk · Sourcing Attractiveness
Market-entry intelligence →Why these scores
EU Compliance, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Geopolitical Risk, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Attractiveness, by dimension
9 = most attractive · methodology & sources
Analyst scores, last reviewed June 2026; each dimension's sources and cadence are on its methodology page.
Data layers
The EU is Japan's #3 import source (world lens). Japan is the EU's #25 goods supplier.
Japan on the world stage
Total imports
$742.7bn
2024 annual
Total exports
$707.4bn
217 partners
#1 import source
China
22.5%
#1 export dest.
USA
20.0%
2024 annual, UN Comtrade (HS TOTAL, all partners). Line colour: coverage (exports/imports per partner).
Japan and the EU
EU imports from
€63.4bn
2.5% of extra-EU
EU exports to
€65.8bn
2.5% of extra-EU
EU supplier rank
EU's #25 supplier
EU trade balance
balanced or surplus
coverage 1.04
2025 annual totals, Eurostat COMEXT. EU trade board →
Electricity & grid
National sources · carbon from Ember
Industrial
182
EUR/MWh
Consumer
223
EUR/MWh, all-in
Grid carbon
482
gCO₂e/kWh
Renewables
27%
of generation
Wholesale 83 EUR/MWh · hybrid market
Power market
● Transmission bottleneckMarket model
Liberalised wholesale market
Direct PPA
Allowed
grid access: open
Reserve margin
–
Regulator
Not independent
OCCTO (system coordination) + METI (policy)
A frequency split (50 Hz east, 60 Hz west) with limited converter capacity fragments the national grid. Post-Fukushima nuclear restarts remain slow, leaving the system reliant on expensive LNG imports despite a…
Tracked infrastructure
207 gas plants
77.7 GW · 3 building
148 coal plants
54.2 GW
141 wind farms
3.5 GW · 33 building
325 solar farms
12.5 GW · 12 building
12 nuclear plants
11.6 GW · 2 building
83 hydro plants
34.7 GW · 1 building
13 steel plants
78,477 ktpa · 1 building
1 coal mines
capacity n/a
Operating assets tracked by Global Energy Monitor (CC BY 4.0); counts are tracked facilities, not exhaustive totals. Energy overview →
Metal mining
Tagged mines
5
none in the merged layer
Acid-drainage prone
2
high water-risk ore class
Main commodities
Silver, Copper, Other mine
Mine-water verifiability
Independent ambient only
national water-quality monitoring under the Water Pollution…
Water risk is inferred from the ore class, not site measurements. Global mines: full layer →
Monitored ports (94)
Source: IMF PortWatch. Port count reflects monitoring coverage, not economic significance.
Demographics
UN World Population Prospects 2024 · medium variant
Median age
49.4
→ 52.8 by 2050
Fertility
1.22
below replacement
Working-age
58.8%
aged 15–64
Old-age dep.
50.7
→ 73.1 by 2050
Median age 1990–2050
Population 124M · peaks 2024
By 2050: -15% (105M)