Japan will procure crude oil from Russia for the first time since U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran in February that led to the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, with a tanker heading to the country carrying oil from the Sakhalin-2 project in the Russian Far East, a trade ministry…

A tanker carrying U.S. oil arrived in Japan on Sunday, marking the first such shipment from the United States since the Iran war began in late February. According to Cosmo Energy Holdings Co that procured the crude oil from the United States, the tanker, which arrived in Tokyo Bay, transported…