They're not directly related as Australia sells LNG to Japan and Japan is buying oil from Russia, but it you have a read of the ABC article linked you see the f

They're not directly related as Australia sells LNG to Japan and Japan is buying oil from Russia, but it you have a read of the ABC article linked you see the following: >"The consequence of these well-intentioned policies will be that the increasing energy demand in our region will be met by coal and not by natural gas," Mr Ueda told MPs at private parliamentary function. >"The result will be much higher global greenhouse gas emissions and will make net zero by 2050 an impossible task. >"On the geopolitical front, Australia's 'quiet quitting' of the LNG business has potentially very sinister consequences. >He said the question of who would replace Australian supply into the market was front and centre. >"Alarmingly, the 'inconvenient truth' is most likely that Russia, China and Iran fill the void," he said. I don't think this is coincidence, and I do believe Japan has a lot to lose from the often talked about 'energy wars' given they have no resources to rely on domestically to fill these requirements.