Japan cannot necessarily follow the NATO trend of snubbing anything Russian related. Japan is a rather small country and has learned the hard way not to rely on other governments for most of your protection or needed fuels. Germany may be about to learn the same thing.
“Rather?”
Japan may be “a rather small country” but it IS the 3rd largest GDP on the planet They have the wealth, and in particular the wealth per capita, to make some choices, although not necessarily many of them quickly...
It is almost humorous to see countries like Lithuania and Bulgaria having made better energy supply choices over the last several years than countries like Japan and Germany.
What I’m actually more interested in with regard to THIS article is the restart of nuclear power plants. The Japanese seem to be saying this is feasible, the Germans and some US experts say it is not. ???