I noticed a small article in this morning's WSJ Market Watch newsletter that the Japanese government is preparing to present a report projecting that the deflationary spiral its been struggling with since 1990 is ending and data suggests that inflation will be manifesting itself in the Japanese economy in 2013.

Japan’s six reactor Fukushima Daichi nuclear complex has inadvertently become the world’s bell-weather poster child for the inherent risks of nuclear power ever since the 11 March Tohoku offshore earthquake, measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale, triggered a devastating tsunami that effectively destroyed the complex.

It’s official – China’s de facto monopoly on current rare earths production is a threat to the global economy.

As least, that was the gist of hearings on 21 September by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.

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The Yen tumbles to the 80.25 against the U.S dollar, as the Japanese Government calls for a 3rd intervention in approx. a year. The Japanese Yen is a safe-haven currency and many traders have been shifting their assets from the Euro and U.S dollar due their negative economic outlook.

As the dire news continues to leach out of Fukishima, the silver lining in its nuclear cloud is that renewable energy technologies, despite their daunting start-up costs, are receiving renewed scrutiny.