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JERA, Japan’s largest utility, will purchase around 3 million tons of liquefied natural gas per year from QatarEnergy beginning in 2028, according to an announcement in Doha on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 4, 2026
Qatar strikes 27-year deal with Jera to supply LNG
Jera will purchase about 3 million tons of LNG per year from QatarEnergy starting in 2028.
Tokyo Gas storage tanks in Tokyo. The company decided not to attend the LNG 2026 conference in Doha due to safety concerns.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 3, 2026
Japanese LNG players skip Qatar conference on security fears
Several Japanese buyers opted not to take part in the LNG 2026 conference, including Tokyo Gas, Osaka Gas and Saibu Gas Holdings.
Japan Gas Association leader Takashi Uchida speaks during an interview in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Jan. 15.
BUSINESS
Jan 30, 2026
Japan Gas Association leader says it’s hard to give up Russian LNG
Securing alternative suppliers will not be easy since Russian LNG has an “economic advantage,” says Takashi Uchida.
Nine regional power utilities announced Thursday that average household electricity bills will rise in February, due to higher liquefied natural gas costs and reduced government subsidies.
BUSINESS
Jan 30, 2026
Nine of Japan’s 10 regional power utilities to raise bills in February
Kansai Electric Power is the only utility not to raise its bills.
A power generating station in Texas. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Europe has replaced some of its lost Russian gas volumes with U.S. liquefied natural gas.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 28, 2026
EU warns of over-reliance on U.S. gas after Russian phase-out
The comments by the European Union’s competition chief come as U.S. President Donald Trump’s stance on Greenland has the continent on edge.
A newly discovered reservoir off the Philippines is estimated to contain around 98 billion cubic feet of gas, equivalent to almost 14 billion kilowatt hours of electricity per year.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 19, 2026
Philippine gas discovery extends life of dwindling legacy field
The discovered reservoir is estimated to contain around 2.8 billion cubic meters of gas, equivalent to almost 14 billion kilowatt hours of electricity per year.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with oil and gas executives and senior U.S. officials in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Friday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jan 18, 2026
Trump is pushing gas to power AI boom, but building plants could take years
Building the kind of power plants that the Trump administration prefers has become extremely difficult.
Masaaki Kanai, director-general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, has lodged a protest with China over its moves to build another structure in the East China Sea.
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2026
Japan criticizes China over new structure being built in East China Sea
The new structure on the Chinese side of the median line between the two countries in the waterway comes as the area’s continental shelf has not yet been delimited.
Mitsubishi said in a statement on Friday that the company agreed to buy Aethon Energy Management’s U.S. gas and pipeline assets for $5.2 billion, the biggest purchase by a Japanese company in the American shale sector.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 16, 2026
Mitsubishi to buy Aethon U.S. gas assets in $5.2 billion deal
Japanese energy companies are looking to expand into U.S. oil and gas following renewed support from President Donald Trump’s administration.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara speaks to reporters Thursday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 8, 2026
Japan protests China’s gas drilling vessel in East China Sea
In 2008 Japan and China had reached an agreement to jointly develop gas fields in the East China Sea, but talks stalled since then.
Workers assemble new Nissan Leaf electric vehicles at a production facility in Sunderland, England, on Dec. 16.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 29, 2025
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A flare stack at an liquefied natural gas plant in Russia. Ukraine has widened the scope of its attacks on Russian energy assets.
WORLD
Dec 26, 2025
Ukraine says it has hit a Russian gas processing plant and oil refinery
Ukraine has widened the scope of its attacks on Russian energy assets, targeting not only crude refineries but also pipelines and other facilities.
The government has been subsidizing electricity and gas rates intermittently since 2023, automatically reflecting them in consumers' utility bills.
JAPAN
Dec 25, 2025
Japan’s 10 major power firms to cut rates by over ¥1,000
The government has been subsidizing electricity and gas rates intermittently since 2023.
A tanker carrying liquefied natural gas from the Sakhalin-2 project, in Chiba Prefecture in 2009
JAPAN
Dec 18, 2025
Japan hails U.S. extension of Sakhalin-2 LNG import permit
The decision allows Japanese trading giants Mitsui and Mitsubishi, which hold stakes in the project, to continue procuring LNG.
Tokyo Gas President Shinichi Sasayama said the company is looking to deploy capital in assets like liquefaction plants, export terminals and the energy services sector.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 15, 2025
Tokyo Gas to invest in U.S. downstream assets to drive growth
The company is looking to deploy capital in assets like liquefaction plants, export terminals and the energy services sector.
U.S. President Donald Trump announces his administration will ease fuel economy standards, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Wednesday. A reduction to the standards, proposed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, would cost Americans an additional $185 billion in fuel and increase carbon dioxide emissions by about 5%.
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 4, 2025
Trump proposes easing fuel rules, in boost for automakers, despite emissions
A reduction to the standards, proposed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, would cost Americans more for fuel and increase carbon dioxide emissions by about 5%.
Employees work on the production line at a factory of Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker Nio in Hefei, Anhui province, China, on April 2.
BUSINESS
Dec 3, 2025
China floods the world with gasoline cars it can’t sell at home
The phenomenon highlights the far-reaching impacts of Chinese industrial policy, as foreign competitors struggle to keep pace with government-backed firms.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce in Calgary, Alberta, on Thursday.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Nov 29, 2025
Canadian PM under fire for alleged climate U-turn
Mark Carney’s most dramatic move came on Thursday, when he struck a deal with conservative-led energy-producing Alberta to advance a new oil pipeline.
The Upper House passed and enacted a bill to scrap the provisional tax surcharges for gasoline and diesel fuel at its plenary session on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 28, 2025
Japan enacts bill to abolish add-on gasoline tax
The bill’s supplementary clause urges the central government to work out concrete measures to make up for an estimated overall annual tax revenue shortfall of ¥1.5 trillion.
Nagano Gov. Shuichi Abe (third from left), head of the National Governors' Association, speaks at a meeting hosted by the central government at the Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Nov 27, 2025
Prefectural governors call for measures to cope with tax revenue falls
While the tax cut is seen reducing local government revenue by about ¥500 billion per year, the prime minister said the central government will “ensure necessary general revenues.”
‘My dream is broken’: Japan visa rules push out foreign residents
A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
Japan triples departure tax in push to combat overtourism
Tourists in Yanaka Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Japan tripled its International Tourist Tax (departure tax) to ¥3,000 from ¥1,000 on Wednesday for all travelers leaving Japan, regardless of nationality.
Japanese-language education is at a turning point
The country is gradually transforming Japanese-language education from a volunteer-driven system into a professional, government-supported network to better serve its growing foreign population. 
More facilities in Japan placing sanitary bins in men’s restrooms
A sanitary bin with an awareness sticker placed in a men's restroom in the Nagasaki Municipal Government building
Japan plans to sharply raise fees for residence permits from October
Foreign tourists walk on the path leading to the Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in May.
Six of the best: rikishi of note in each sumo division
Kazuma (right) faces off against future <i>yokozuna</i> Onosato during the All Japan Amateur Sumo Championships at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo in December 2020.
Some startups see opportunity in an aging Japan
Yasmin Baba, CTO of Amilis, wins the Grand Prize at the Pitch2Tokyo Grand Final on Feb. 19.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
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James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.

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