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Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 21, 2020
End of Venezuela’s oil fortune looms over Nicolas Maduro’s regime
Oil revenue, the financial lifeline of Venezuela, is quickly drying up, adding to the growing instability of Nicolas Maduro’s embattled regime.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
Jun 18, 2020
Millions of abandoned oil wells leaking methane, becoming climate menace
Leaks from abandoned wells have long been recognized as an environmental problem, a health hazard and a public nuisance.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 14, 2020
Vast amounts of Venezuelan oil hidden en route to China, bypassing U.S. sanctions
Last year, China replaced the United States as the No. 1 importer of oil from Venezuela, yet another front in the heated rivalry between Washington and Beijing.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 8, 2020
Giant diesel spill in Russia offers glimpse of Arctic’s future
With temperatures rising at twice the global average rate in the Arctic Circle, the frozen ground is thawing and causing cracks in roads and buildings.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 5, 2020
Malaysia farms face $3 billion hit from palm oil worker shortage
The coronavirus pandemic has left Malaysia’s palm oil industry without enough workers, a shortage that could cost farmers as much as 25 percent of their annual production — a loss worth about $2.8 billion.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 31, 2020
Back to too much oil?
If swelling production keeps outpacing recovering consumption, we will be returning to the pre-1970 world of cheap oil.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
May 25, 2020
Fading fossil fuel prices next big test for Russia’s battered economy
Some predict the peak for oil prices was in 2019, about 15 years earlier than the Kremlin was expecting.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / EXPLAINER
May 24, 2020
New lows: What do near-negative oil prices mean for Japan's economy?
The benchmark U.S. oil price fell below zero last month for the first time in history.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 19, 2020
How will COVID-19 reshape Asia’s energy future?
Impacts on the energy realm could have ripple effects for geopolitics more generally.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 11, 2020
In post-lockdown era, car usage could rebound as people avoid public transport
As lockdowns ease and parts of the world reopen for business, driving has emerged as the socially distant transportation mode of choice.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 27, 2020
Will coronavirus fan the flames of Southeast Asia's haze problem?
Weak enforcement of restrictions to curb COVID-19 infections in rural Indonesia, coupled with farmers opting for cheap ways to clear land, could see a repeat of the forest fires and smoke that choked Southeast Asia last year, environmentalists have said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 27, 2020
High-seas energy fight off Malaysia draws U.S. and Chinese warships
U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo has accused China of 'exploiting” the world's focus on the COVID-19 pandemic with provocations in the South China Sea.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 23, 2020
Oil: The perfect storm
The collapse of production and investment in the oil industry is hard on the millions of people who make their livings from it, but the writing has been on the wall for some time.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 22, 2020
Japan pump price down for 13th straight week
The average retail gasoline price in Japan as of Monday fell ¥1 from a week before to ¥130.9 per liter, down for the 13th consecutive week, the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy said Wednesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 13, 2020
OPEC and Russia approve biggest-ever oil cut amid pandemic
After four days of talks, the group known as OPEC Plus has agreed to reduce output by 9.7 million barrels per day for May and June.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 8, 2020
After cuts by other major oil producers, Exxon chops spending by 30%
Exxon Mobil Corp on Tuesday throttled back a multi-year investment in shale, LNG and deep water oil production and will cut planned capital spending by 30 percent this year as the COVID-19 pandemic saps energy demand and oil prices.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Apr 3, 2020
Trump’s push for huge deal to cut oil supply draws disbelief
With just one tweet, U.S. President Donald Trump conjured up the prospect of a global oil alliance to rescue the industry from the worst shock in history. The question is whether it evaporates just as quickly.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 1, 2020
Oil worker at BP's Alaska facility tests positive for new coronavirus
A worker at BP Plc's operation in Alaska's North Slope has tested positive for the novel coronavirus that has killed more than 42,000 people worldwide, the company confirmed Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2020
Fossil-fuel giant Russia tiptoes toward low-carbon future
Fossil fuel-rich Russia has for the first time set out a greener economic path for the coming three decades, in a long-term, low-carbon development plan released this week.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Pope Francis, radical leader who broke the papal mold, dies at 88
Pope Francis blesses the faithful during the weekly general audience at the Vatican in August 2023.
Japan mulls reviewing car safety rules to strike deal with Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's Economic Revitalization Minister and top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to the press upon his arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Friday.
Japan tariff negotiator rules out quick U.S. deal despite push by Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to reporters upon his arrival at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Friday, a day after talks in Washington.
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
The floor is art: Takuro Tamayama transforms mundanity
Takuro Tamayama’s sculpture “Models (Pair, 6 sets, 12 rings)” comes with a mathematical formation that scales it for different spaces.
Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar
People walk past an advertisement featuring Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani outside Tokyo Dome on March 18.
Calling all Potterheads: ‘The Goblet of Fire’ comes to Tokyo
The Tokyo version of the globe-trotting exhibition features a Ministry of Magic set, which includes an imposing replica of the Magic Is Might monument representing magical fascism.
Tokyo stock picker advises Trump-proofing portfolios with Godzilla creator Toho
The head of Godzilla, a Japanese monster movie character, is seen on a building of Toho Cinema in Tokyo. Toho is one tariff-defensive stock being recommended by brokers.

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