Japan would possibly have joined the United States and Europe is sanctioning Russia after its incursion into Ukraine, but has no plans to pull out of a joint Russian oil-fuel project, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said today.
Japan is a country that lacks natural resources, which has forced it to seek to balance its fossil fuel needs by pushing a hard line against Russia, a fact that has provoked complaints from some Western countries.
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, oil company Shell announced it would sell its 27. 5% stake in Sakhalin 2 in Russia’s eastern territories. solid, economical and affordable source of LNG” to your country.
In a recent parliamentary session, he said that “this is a task for our energy security, so our plan is not to withdraw. “politics, Kishida said.
Since the beginning of the war, Japan has pressured Russia with a series of sanctions against Russian corporations and individuals, adding Vladimir Putin. The country has also just passed a ban on luxury car exports to Russia, one of its main export markets. .
One of the reasons for Japan’s heavy dependence on imported fossil fuels stems from the closure of nuclear reactors in reaction to the Fukushima crash in 2011.