Japan’s dependence on oil from the Middle East has risen to a record level at a time when global oil markets are haunted by Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas conflict. Today ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida declared on Nov. 24 that Japan will release its state oil reserves for the first time ever in a bid to ease the soaring price of crude. It came on the heels of the ...

TOKYO (AP) — Oil sprayed from an All Nippon Airways plane as it landed Wednesday at Shin Chitose airport in northern Japan, but none of the 213 people on board was injured, officials said.