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John Noun
Hopefully he'll wear a mask for the first time
Michael Machida
I see. Oil.
kurisupisu
PM Kishida is going to be shaking hands with a murderer that cuts up opponents whilst alive-has he no shame?
Yrral
Kishida is a ,tone deaf and clueless to the world,do everything to curry favor
TokyoLiving
Dear Japan..
Please switch to green energies soon and stop depending on the medieval damn oil..
You would have much more money to resolve all your problems and invest in the well-being of your people..
kurisupisu
Where are all the solar panels on factories, stadiums, houses and apartment blocks?
The complete lack of political foresight in Japan is remarkable…
dan
Kishida...a fossil interested in obtaining more fossil fuels.
wallace
Oil is about 40% of all energy imports. Not much oil is used for power generation. Oil is used for transport and industry.
Eastman
well Fumio there is no problem to get cheap oil from Russia and as much as you want but yes since your role is one of US poodle you have no choice just beg for cheap oil from wahhabists in Saudi Arabia and still play big buy on front of Russians.
just one question-how about to take care of house issues first?say help to people affected by covid with cash handouts,support young families with children having bad times or take proper care about moonies and tell us all clear true?
wallace
kurisupisu
Does not change the need for oil. Until the majority of cars and trucks are replaced with none fossil fuel types.
Readyfortakeoff
Did Biden have any Shame?
Readyfortakeoff
Japan should go back to Nuclear power.
Readyfortakeoff
So did Biden. Biden saw $8.00 a gallon gas and one term as President.
wallace
Nuclear power does not fit into cars, buses, trucks, or ships.....
wallace
Japan imports 3.6% of its crude oil from Russia and 8.8% of its gas.
Japan's Russian crude oil imports fall to zero in June
They need alternatives.
Tom San
More nuclear power, please.
Sanjinosebleed
Yeh seems like now Biden has visited the dictator/murderer,every other head of state is lining up! What moral integrity these politicians have....NOT
WA4TKG
He could go to Qatar and the Emirates and not bother going to Saudi Arabia.
I doubt they would agree to anything more than Biden got.
Qatar’s main export is LNG and that’s what Japan uses quite a bit of.
Kyo wa heiwa dayo ne
Qatar is the world's largest exporters of natural gas and the world's largest emissions of carbon dioxide per capita.
At least women are treated with more respect.
But militarily their alignment with Iran and turkey and then USA and France and the UK is a concern.
The invasion of Iraq was staged mostly from Qatar.
But also extremist are there
WA4TKG
At least women are treated with more respect.
They make up for that by beating 3rd World Country Nationals that are contracted to work there.
If you film a Qatari abusing one of these people, you can find yourself instantly being deported
Rodney
Suddenly after G7 his boots got so big.
diagonalslip
fossil fool????
kurisupisu
@wallace
For sure but there isn’t even a glimmer of light towards finding alternatives.
wallace
kurisupisu
@wallace
The country needs to maximize renewables and could be doing much better on that.
But what are your suggestions for replacing oil for vehicles? More EVs, more hybrids, more hydrogen, and ammonia. But that is not going to happen overnight nor in the next 20 years.
Kyo wa heiwa dayo ne
WA4TKG
I meant Qatar treat women better than the saudi or UAE treat their women.
I've been to saudi thrice in the 80's and it's not pleasant to say the least
Kyo wa heiwa dayo ne
WA4TG
crude is more affordable in saudi but saudi has a price cap agreement with Russia
PTownsend
Having lived/worked and visited each of the three, I think they eaach share cultural and religious similarities.The UAE is more willing than Saudi or Qatar to accept women having roles beyond the historical Gulf Arab roles. Qatar more so than Saudi. The UAE and Qatar have educated large numbers of women in an array of fields including science and engineering, many going abroad to get advanced degrees. Many women have management roles in gas and oil industries, especially those with 'wasta', i.e connections to powerful people, some women in Qatar and the UAE have started successful businesses.
Sven Asai
Not so smart to get intentionally involved in conflicts of other far away continents or substituting a warmongering Putin by handshaking with a chainsaw killer and equally not much democratic Islamists. With a little smartness and backbones he just only would buy the now cheap third party BRICS oil and step as replacement into the big vacant percentage of now free Shell and Exxon shares of Sakhalin2 gas fields, and easily done without too much costs, publicity and future problems.
Kyo wa heiwa dayo ne
Ptownsend
I agree absolutely
elephant200
The Arab kingdom doesn't cares the concern from Japan. They just put their attention over Russia and China. In fact Prince M.B.S. despise Biden and his little pet Japan!
Rodney
M.B.S does love the Bush family though.
kishida should be more focused on finding alternatives to Saudi oil. Any minute Israel will attack Iran and zero oil will come from Saudi for at least a year. My I suggest Russia as an alternative?
JTC
Everyone once again wants to be Friends again with those in the Middle East - all because of the need for Oil. And as such a blind eye, is turned towards the less attractive sides shown by those Countries.
Mr Kipling
Not correct.
It is the western sanctions that have created supply concerns. Misguided western nations saying they are going to buy oil and gas, BUT not Russian oil and gas sends the price of oil and gas skywards.
Russia is still happy to sell you all you need.
Yrral
Saudis are buying discount oil from Russia,as strange as it sounds,they are Google Saudis Purchasing Discount Russian Oil
Yrral
Mr K,we have 100 of million barrel,that can be loaded to arefinery within 3 hours and process in America from our Gulf of Mexico reserves stored for an emergency