Vetoing won't make the situation better tho. yes, the resolution is hollow and worthless but it's not going to make what's happening in Gaza worse.
Personally I hope Japan never backs down, an openly hostile Japan that gets taken care of is much more preferable than pretending Japan is a normal country that deserve a seat at the table of civilization.
Their second biggest export market is China, at around 19% vs the US 21%. () If China enacted tariffs similar to Trump on the primary exports from Japan, namely industrial machines and machine tools, robotics and integrated circuits (all sectors that China is trying to develop self sufficiency in) then Japan would get tag teamed on both ends by their two largest export partners. Their only play would be to try to devalue the yen even more (lol) and result in their population being able to barely feed themselves at that point whilst getting paid in yen and depending on expensive imports of food and energy. Plus, China can just use Trump's playbook and say "Japan was taking advantage of China through trade". China may lose out on trade selling to Japan when they retaliate, but the overall impact is significantly more painful for them. Also, WTO can't do jack shit because they're paralyzed from Trump's dual attack with the blocking of judges and withholding financial contributions.
TACO - Takaichi already chickened out
That's nothing, I say China demand Japan demonstrate it has no intention of every invading China by cutting it's defence spending by 75% and dismantling 90% of it's navy.
Japan imports more from China than its exports to China.
Clearly the Chinese has yet to push the Dutch hard enough. The Chinese CEO has yet to be reinstated. And as you said, Nexperia probably owns Wingtech tons of unpaid wages and fees.
Yes, but the overall impact to Japan would be greater. Both countries have similar exports as part of GDP% at ~ 20%, with Japan being slightly higher. But China comprises 19% of Japan's total exports whereas Japan comprises 4.3% of China's total exports. Also, where will Japan find a better price-to-quality point compared to imports from China? If they try to retaliate too hard, it would just exacerbate their now very precarious cost of living crisis. Chinese reduction of Japanese imports might mean a reduction in quality and/or technology level when trying to source from local vendors, but make no mistake, whatever Japan can make, China can also make, even if at lowered capability. This is also a gap that is diminishing by the day. The only possible sector that Japan still has a sizable edge in is advanced materials. Hopefully there is some domestic plan in China to tackle this.
Taco-ichi LOL