Editing Openai/6935aaed-f35c-8004-8137-e0b2dcf25c84 (section)

==== - This is a structured story, not a measured index. ====
* It should be used to: - Guide questions (“where are we over-exposed?”, “who are our truly indispensable partners?”), - Inspire stress tests (“what happens to us if East Asia stalls?”), - Shape exploratory strategy (“do we treat Japan/East Asia as a core pillar, or just another market?”).
* It should not be used by itself to: - Set capital buffers, - Make hard national-security decisions, - Claim precise risk levels or probabilities.

For that, Bridge360 would require explicit metrics, data, and validation, which we have not built here.

If you want, next step we can take just this cleaned-up narrative and map it into:
* A short governance-neutral advisory note for policymakers,
* Or a checklist for businesses that says, in simple questions, “If Tokyo/East Asia is your operational backbone, have you…?”