Japan must strongly protest Russia’s threats to ‘seize’ joint project.
We would like to share the Editorial in The Yomiuri Shimbun, July 7, 2022.
Russia’s unilateral actions to threaten Japan’s energy security can never be tolerated.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a presidential decree to transfer the rights to the Russian Far East’s Sakhalin-2 oil and natural gas project, which Japanese trading houses have also invested in, to a new operating company to be established by Moscow.