00:00As the U.S. ramps up efforts to curb Russian oil sales, attention is now turning to Japan.
00:07Treasury Secretary Scott Besson met Japan's Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato on the sidelines
00:13of IMF and G7 meetings in Washington, pressing Tokyo to end all imports of Russian energy.
00:22In a post on X, Besson said Kato told him Japan will continue coordinating with G7 allies
00:29to support peace in Ukraine, but did not confirm any immediate bans.
00:34Japan has already agreed with other G7 countries to phase out Russian oil imports following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
00:43However, the country still buys limited volumes of Sakhalin blend crude, a byproduct of the Sakhalin II LNG project
00:51that provides nearly 9% of its gas supply.
00:54U.S. officials have been pushing Japan to shift more of its energy imports to American suppliers,
01:00including future investments in a $44 billion LNG project in Alaska.
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