Japan revises Battery Industry Strategy to Battery and Power Industry

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has revised its 2022 “Battery Industry Strategy” and reissued it as the “Battery and Power Industry Strategy”.

• Main announcement: METI updates the strategy with concrete targets: establish a domestic manufacturing base of 150 GWh/year by the 2030s to mid-2030s, grow Japanese battery-related global sales threefold between 2025 and 2035, and commercialize all-solid-state batteries around 2030 with manufacturing capacity scaled toward the mid-2030s. The revision reframes focus from batteries alone to integrated battery-centered power systems.
• Background and implementation details: The revision responds to global oversupply and supply-chain risks, and rising demand from AI data centers and medical/disaster electrical control needs. METI outlines a seven-pillar policy package (domestic base expansion, upstream resource securing, supply-chain resilience, next-generation technology development, etc.) to be pursued via public–private collaboration. Related documents (strategy and reference materials) are provided as METI PDFs and a METI conference page.