{"id":76806,"date":"2026-03-24T13:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/24\/japan-oil-release-national-reserves"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:36:06","slug":"japan-to-begin-biggest-ever-oil-release-from-national-reserves-as-middle-east-energy-crisis-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76806","title":{"rendered":"Japan to begin biggest-ever oil release from national reserves as Middle East energy crisis bites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM Sanae Takaichi<strong> <\/strong>says about 80m barrels of stockpiled oil to be provided to refiners \u2013 equivalent to 45 days of domestic demand <\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/24\/iran-war-live-updates-trump-ursula-von-der-leyen-oil-prices-energy-crisis-israel-strikes\"><strong>Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> will begin the biggest-ever release of oil from its strategic reserves this week, the prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/sanae-takaichi\">Sanae Takaichi<\/a>, has said, as the country braces for possible shortages caused by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/us-israel-war-on-iran\">US-Israel war on Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The government last week approved the release of 15 days\u2019 worth of private-sector reserves, amid concern that the conflict in the Middle East will continue to hinder the flow of tanker traffic along the strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/24\/japan-oil-release-national-reserves\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM Sanae Takaichi says about 80m barrels of stockpiled oil to be provided to refiners \u2013 equivalent to 45 days of domestic demand \u2022 Middle East crisis \u2013 live updatesJapan will begin the biggest-ever release of oil from its strategic reserves this week, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,666,657,88,449,3455,47,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-commodities","category-energy-industry","category-japan","category-oil","category-sanae-takaichi","category-us-news","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76807,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76806\/revisions\/76807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}