Beneath the oceans, out of sight and mostly out of mind, lies the infrastructure that keeps messages sending, videos streaming and AI tools answering in real time.
Fiber-optic cables carry nearly all the world’s data between continents. When one is damaged — by an anchor, an earthquake or something more deliberate — traffic must keep moving. That resilience is what keeps digital life — and AI — running smoothly.
Among the 17 strategic sectors in the Takaichi Cabinet’s growth strategy, “information and communications” includes measures to strengthen digital infrastructure, notably by promoting geographic diversification of international submarine cable landing points across Japan. Following a series of incidents that resulted in submarine cable damage in the Baltic Sea and near Taiwan, there is growing international recognition that submarine cables are not only foundational infrastructure for the digital economy but also critical assets for national security.
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