Japan Spent Decades Buying the World’s Logs. Now It Sells Its Own.

Tokyo sold the world 1.912 million cubic metres of logs in 2025 and bought only 1.71 million back, a second consecutive year in surplus and a record outbound volume. That is according to the Forestry Agency, whose export results published on 5 August show outbound trade at all-time highs in value and volume, and whose […] The post Japan Spent Decades Buying the World’s Logs. Now It Sells Its Own.…