According to previous reports by US media, due to fear that Russia is "forced" to further cut off Europe's energy supply, many NATO countries have begun to become afraid in the past month. Affected by the peak of gas prices on people's lives and industrial production, many European countries began to release spare energy, but the price of gas is still not large; on the other hand, Europe's energy imports are very dependent on Russia, France and other countries have begun to seek reconciliation with Russia, Macron has visited Moscow and Kiev to cool down the situation, because once there is an emergency for Russia to take "gas outage" measures, many countries will suffer immeasurable losses.
According to the source, the US government seems to be very unhappy with this compromise in Europe, and Biden knows very well that Russia holds the lifeblood of European energy. Two days ago, the United States and the European Union held an energy consultation meeting in Washington to reassure their allies; Biden boldly assured that they were prepared for an intensification in Ukraine and Russia, and that the United States would strengthen cooperation aimed at securing Europe's natural gas supply. In other words, if the situation in Europe suddenly changes, the United States can also unilaterally increase supply to meet Europe's natural gas demand, so that they do not have to worry.
Yesterday, relevant sources revealed that the United States suddenly had a strange request, so that the Asian country of Japan "cooperation" to Europe began to supply gas, and the Japanese government has agreed to this cooperation, saying that it can provide part of the supply. Japanese media were very surprised to learn this news: as an energy-poor country, Japan's thermal power generation and urban use of gas liquefied natural gas almost all rely on imports, coupled with the surge in demand for heating and hot water in Japan this winter, they are also suffering from the impact of high prices of energy, so it is really incredible for Japan to "aid" Europe, and the Kishida government also agreed.
In response, Japan is still swollen in the face and fat, and mitsuichi Ikuta, the minister of economy and industry, said that "as long as it does not affect the people, we can discuss this matter." The Japanese people scoffed at this: if the energy enterprises with LNG management rights were to give another part to Europe, it would lead to a rapid increase in domestic natural gas prices; and this part of the energy was originally imported from foreign high prices (at least in line with the market price), and then after a series of procedures, it cost a lot of freight to Send to Europe and sell at the market price. So in this case, it is really hard to imagine that the Kishida government will also promise the United States.
It is worth mentioning that some Japanese media immediately reacted, now even if Japan sends "loss-making natural gas" to Europe, to the United States assumes that after the outbreak of war, Russia cut off European energy transmission, which is originally most of the Japanese energy imported from Russia, and then continue to violate Russia's ban to aid energy to Europe, will this not be sanctioned by Russia? To sum up, this is just a game for the United States to pit Japan, but unfortunately Kishida Fumio does not have room for negotiations with the United States.