In April this year, domestic steel product consumption in Japan amounted to 3.61 million metric tons, up 2.8 percent compared to the previous month and down by 1.9 percent year on year, according to the data released by the Japan Iron and Steel Association (JISF). Meanwhile, in the January-April period of 2025, domestic steel consumption in the country decreased by 3.4 percent year on year to 14.19 million metric tons.
In the first four months of the given year, steel product consumption in the construction sector in Japan moved down by 6.5 percent to 2.70 million metric tons, while steel product consumption in the Japanese automotive sector amounted to 3.63 million metric tons, up 4.5 percent, both on year-on-year basis. In the given period, Japan’s shipbuilding industry consumed 913,148 metric tons of steel products, down 5.6 percent compared to the same period of the previous year.