Business | The Sakhalin exception
Japanese energy firms cling on to their Russian assets
That puts them in line with Japan’s government but at odds with the West
|Singapore
Editor’s note (July 1st 2022): After The Economist went to press Vladimir Putin ordered the nationalisation of the Sakhalin-II natural-gas project “to defend [Russia’s] national interests”. Japan’s government later said it did not believe this would jeopardise the supply of gas from Sakhalin.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “The Sakhalin exception”
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