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Brown, a professor of Japan-Russia relations at Temple University in Japan, said, "This is not to say that Japan cannot do without Rosneft. They can, they just don't want to do it." "If they are serious about supporting Ukraine," they should finally abandon the Sakhalin plan. painting.

However, Japan produces almost no fossil fuels and relies mostly on imported natural gas and coal for power generation. Forgoing access to Russian LNG would be counterproductive, officials said, as Russia could instead sell the liquefied natural gas to China.


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