On the surface of it, Russia, the world’s second leading hydrocarbon
exporter and Japan, Asia’s second leading energy importer, seem a
business arrangement made in heaven.
Except for one small historical detail – World War Two. On 8 August, two days after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and the day before the U.S. dropped a second on Nagasaki, the USSR abandoned its neutrality treaty with Japan signed in April 1941, and in a lightning campaign lasting less than a month, overwhelmed Japanese Kwantung Army military forces in Manchuria and took the Kurile islands into the bargain.
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Except for one small historical detail – World War Two. On 8 August, two days after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and the day before the U.S. dropped a second on Nagasaki, the USSR abandoned its neutrality treaty with Japan signed in April 1941, and in a lightning campaign lasting less than a month, overwhelmed Japanese Kwantung Army military forces in Manchuria and took the Kurile islands into the bargain.
Read more: http://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Former-Enemies-Japan-and-Russia-to-Trade-LNG.html
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