{"id":1313330,"date":"2025-10-29T13:47:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/japans-prime-minister-rejects-trumps-request-to-stop-importing-russian-gas\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T13:47:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:47:45","slug":"japans-prime-minister-rejects-trumps-request-to-stop-importing-russian-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/japans-prime-minister-rejects-trumps-request-to-stop-importing-russian-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Prime Minister Rejects Trump&#8217;s Request to Stop Importing Russian Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"140\" data-end=\"335\"><strong>Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi rejected US President Donald Trump&#8217;s request to stop importing Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) during their meeting in Tokyo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-start\"> Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/japan-pm-pushed-back-us-request-ban-russian-energy-imports-nikkei-reports-2025-10-29\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">writes<\/a> about this, citing its own sources.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"401\" data-end=\"574\"> According to the agency, Takaichi explained to Trump that it would be difficult for Japan to completely abandon Russian gas and called on the American president to &#8220;show understanding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"576\" data-end=\"774\"> The Japanese Ministry of Industry also noted that replacing Russian LNG with other supply sources would lead to a significant increase in energy prices and a rise in electricity costs.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"776\" data-end=\"953\"> Currently, Russian gas accounts for about 9% of Japan&#8217;s total LNG imports, with Japanese companies holding stakes in the Sakhalin-2 project in the Far East.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"955\" data-end=\"1138\"> At the same time, as <em data-start=\"973\" data-end=\"982\">Reuters<\/em> writes, Japan is gradually increasing its purchases of American LNG, trying to diversify its energy supply and reduce its dependence on Russian resources.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, the Donald Trump administration recently announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/tramp-zaprovadyv-pershi-velyki-sanktsii-proty-rosiyskoi-ekonomiky-pid-udarom-rosneft-i-lukoyl\/\">first major package<\/a> of financial restrictions targeting the Russian economy. This move is part of Washington&#8217;s new strategy to force the Kremlin to end its war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, US President Donald<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/tramp-ironichno-vidreahuvav-na-slova-putina-pro-nepomitnyy-vplyv-sanktsiy\/\">Trump sarcastically commented on<\/a> the words of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin regarding new American sanctions, which, according to the Russian leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/sproba-eskalatsii-putin-zrobyv-novi-zaiavy-pro-sanktsii-ssha-zustrich-z-trampom-ta-tomahawk\/\">will allegedly not affect the Russian economy<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi rejected US President Donald Trump&#8217;s request to stop importing Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) during their meeting in Tokyo. Reuters writes about this, citing its own sources. According to the agency, Takaichi explained to Trump that it would be difficult for Japan to completely abandon Russian gas and called on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":487562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1313330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}