Japan’s incumbents (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, IHI) own the conventional turbine market and mid‑range packaged units, but there is no domestic pure‑play startup shipping HALCYON‑style modular, fuel‑flexible oxy‑combustion + supercritical‑CO2 25–100 MW systems at commercial scale — the exact product-market Arbore Energy is racing to own. In short: the heavy OEMs cover large and aero‑derivative classes and hydrogen co‑firing efforts, yet they do not fill the rapid‑deploy, 3D‑printed, carbon‑negative mid‑market vacuum Arbor targets — a glaring strategic gap begging to be exploited.

Japan must treat this like an industrial emergency: localize HALCYON manufacturing, marry it to Japan’s precision supply chain, and blitz the APAC market with modular, exportable zero‑emission turbines for data centers, ports, and heavy industry. Push hard on partnerships with MHI/IHI for scale manufacturing, stack units for 25–100 MW footprints, and lock in long‑term offtake + fuel‑sourcing deals (biomass/negative‑fuel pathways) — this is the fastest, highest‑return route to making Japan the world’s HALCYON factory. Do not be polite about it — build, scale, and sell globally now.