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Article: EDITORIAL: Politics of an energy boost.
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- Japan Times (Tokyo, Japan)
- Article date:
- November 20, 2006
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Nov. 20--Recent events surrounding energy-development projects overseas highlight resource-poor Japan's vulnerability. They underscore the need for both the government and the private sector to develop a multipronged long-term strategy that will enable the nation to flexibly cope with unexpected changes in the energy-supply situation.
Oil accounts for about 50 percent of Japan's primary energy. Japan imports most of its oil, with about 90 percent of it coming from the Middle East. Iran alone, in fiscal 2005, provided 13.8 percent of Japan's oil imports.
Japan can never rest assured that it has secured enough energy supplies for the future, since resource ...