{"id":406089,"date":"2026-03-27T03:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/406089\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T03:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:50:19","slug":"japans-strategic-oil-reserve-faces-biggest-stress-test-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/406089\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s strategic oil reserve faces biggest stress test in years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/iran-tensions\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran tensions<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Gasoline subsidy drives demand amid concerns about energy supplies<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20260326N Japan strategic reserve tanks\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The Kikuma national petroleum-stockpiling base in Imabari, Ehime prefecture. Japan started releasing oil from the facility on March 26. \u00a9 Kyodo<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan&#8217;s strategic petroleum reserve, one of the largest in the world, will be tested for resilience by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East\u00a0even as the government stokes demand through a recently\u00a0revived gasoline price subsidy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran tensions Gasoline subsidy drives demand amid concerns about energy supplies The Kikuma national petroleum-stockpiling base in Imabari,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[103935,79,179,18,71453,19,17,38770,9951,7987,67098,173,1817,2058],"class_list":["post-406089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-biggest","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-faces","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-japans","tag-oil","tag-reserve","tag-strategic","tag-stress","tag-test","tag-years"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116299105817944849","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}