Tokyo, May 21 (Jiji Press)--Japan's crude oil imports from the Middle East plunged 67.2 pct in April from a year earlier amid escalating tensions involving Iran, the Finance Ministry said in a preliminary report Thursday. The decline was the steepest since 1980, when

財務省が21日に発表した4月の貿易統計(速報)で、中東からの原油の輸入量が前年同月より67.2%減少したことが明らかになった。ナフサなどを含む「揮発油」の輸入も79.4%減少した。イラン情勢の緊迫化…

Japan has reported its exports soared nearly 15% in April from a year earlier as its trade remained robust despite worries over supplies of oil and gas due to the war in Iran

Country pushes to procure fuel from alternative sources such as US

Tokyo, May 21 (Jiji Press)--Japan's crude oil imports from the Middle East plunged 67.2 pct in April from a year earlier amid escalating tensions involving Iran, the Finance…

Japan's oil imports from the Middle East fell 67.2% year-on-year in April, according to data released by the Finance Ministry.

Japan's Middle East crude imports fell 67.2% in April to their lowest level since records began in 1979, as the Iran war shut the Strait of Hormuz.

財務省のデータによると、日本のアラブ諸国からの原油輸入は4月に前年同月比で67%以上減少した。日本は原油輸入の少なくとも90%を、財務省が中東と分類するアラブ諸国に依存している。貿易統計速報によれば、4月の日本の輸入量は・・・

A Saudi supertanker carrying 2 million barrels is due in Nagoya on May 25, marking Japan's first Middle East crude delivery since the Iran war shut Hormuz in February.

Korea's imports of crude oil from the Middle East slipped 37 percent in April from a year earlier amid prolonged geopolitical tensions in the regio...