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April 13, 2012

[SSJ: 7375] Re: A couple of reasons why the electricity has kept flowing despite the nuclear shutdowns

From: Jun Okumura
Date: 2012/04/13

James David Brown writes:

"I find it a bit hard to credit though that ""Japanese policymakers" have never let "politics" get in the way of a good commercial deal with Russia, especially when the deal involves energy security." Surely the inseparability of economics and politics has been a touchstone of Japanese policy towards the Soviet Union/Russia over the years. Should Tokyo wish it, there must be considerable scope for increasing energy imports from Russia." (2012/04/13)

Brown, of course, does not have to believe me, but I do believe that he should produce a counterexample for people following this thread. After all, that's all he needs to do to prove me wrong; he only has to refute a negative. To aid his cause, I am providing the following set of words for him to google: "East Sakhalin gas oil Japan". If there's need for more, "siberian oil pipeline Japan" would also be useful.

In passing, I note that he has not denied that by "politics" he means the "Northern Territories." I also think that he should disaggregate "Japan", since it does not have a command economy.

Approved by ssjmod at 12:37 PM