Japan is often criticized as a "resource-poor" country, yet still smart enough to do business well in the supply chains.

Sure, LNG itself comes from US and Australia, but LNG ships and power plants are built by Japanese makers. Mitsubishi is a prime example, they just became the largest gas turbine supplier.

You can see it even in Euro's wind energy. Vestas wind system, its most important CFRP blades and power semiconductors are supplied by Japanese makers. Japan has presence in everything, because Japanese are high IQ.