The article says that Japan’s total trade with Russia from January to November was 542.3 billion yen in exports and 1.2 trillion yen in imports. At the same time, the amount of imports has already exceeded the total amount of 1.5 trillion yen in 2021 by more than 270 billion yen.
Thus, an “abnormal situation” has occurred, when the volume of transactions exceeds that prior to the sanction, says the article.
He notes that goods supplied to Russia include used cars, and Japan buys mineral fuel and seafood.
In December, Bloomberg reported that, for the first time since May, Japan would receive a new batch of crude oil from Russia, from the Sakhalin-2 facility in the Far East.
