Resource-poor Japan depends overwhelmingly on fossil-fuel imports to meet its energy needs, complicating calls for the nation to boycott Russia’s oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Here’s what’s at stake: WHAT’S IN JAPAN’S ENERGY MIX, AND WHY IS LNG SO IMPORTANT? Japan gets most of its primary energy needs from crude oil, more than 90% of which comes from the Middle East, based on government data. LNG comprises about 24% of the total energy mix. But LNG takes up a bigger piece of the pie when it comes to electricity production, at 36%. That dependence has increased since 2011, when most of Japan’s nuclear facilities were idled after the massive earthquake and tsunami that triggered meltdowns at […]