{"id":20642,"date":"2026-05-11T20:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/20642\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T20:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:19:17","slug":"japan-will-receive-oil-from-azerbaijan-for-the-first-time-since-the-beginning-of-the-middle-east-crisis-baku-ws-news-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/20642\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan will receive oil from Azerbaijan for the first time since the beginning of the Middle East crisis | Baku.ws News Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ZSJRwTxzssPbkcRyQLf183xEYVzkyjLoqjPaaRJS.webp\" alt=\"Japan will receive oil from Azerbaijan for the first time since the beginning of the Middle East crisis\" title=\"Japan will receive oil from Azerbaijan for the first time since the beginning of the Middle East crisis\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                11<br \/>\n                                May<\/p>\n<p>                                2026<br \/>\n                                14:35\n                            <\/p>\n<p>Japan will receive its first shipment of Azerbaijani oil since the escalation in the Middle East began, amid disruptions to supplies through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>According to Reuters, a tanker carrying Azerbaijani oil is expected to arrive at the port of Yokohama as early as Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Japan&#8217;s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the cargo is destined for the Japanese company Eneos.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Director-General of the Ministry&#8217;s Crisis Management Division, Narumi Hosokawa, stated that this is the first oil delivery from Azerbaijan to Japan since the beginning of the Middle East conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Before the start of the American-Israeli military campaign against Iran in late February, approximately 95% of Japan&#8217;s oil imports came from Middle Eastern countries.<\/p>\n<p>However, after the blockage of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, Tokyo was forced to seek alternative sources of supply.<\/p>\n<p>The publication also notes that Japanese oil refineries have historically been geared toward processing Middle Eastern oil, but the country has already begun diversifying its imports.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Azerbaijan, Japan has increased oil purchases from the United States and has also imported crude from Russia&#8217;s Sakhalin-2 project, which is covered by a sanctions exemption.<\/p>\n<p>After the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022, Japan virtually ceased importing Russian oil and joined the sanctions against Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>To compensate for the supply deficit from the Middle East, Tokyo has also begun tapping into its strategic petroleum reserves.<\/p>\n<p>As of May 8, Japan&#8217;s oil reserves covered 205 days of domestic consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"11 May 2026 14:35 Japan will receive its first shipment of Azerbaijani oil since the escalation in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[191,189,188,190,2895],"class_list":{"0":"post-20642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-economy","9":"tag-economy-of-japan","10":"tag-japans-economy","11":"tag-japanese-economy","12":"tag-russia-ukraine-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}