{"id":375852,"date":"2026-04-05T05:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/375852\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T05:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:57:09","slug":"gasoline-diapers-and-drinks-japan-faces-wide-ranging-impact-amid-concern-over-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/375852\/","title":{"rendered":"Gasoline, diapers and drinks: Japan faces wide-ranging impact amid concern over oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even as Japan dips into its vast reserves of oil, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is fueling concerns about medium and long-term shortages and higher prices for everything from gas at the pump to plastic toys sold in \u00a5100 shops.<\/p>\n<p>While the government has rushed to assure the public that the overall supply of crude oil and petroleum products used in the making of plastics is sufficient for now, efforts to curb electricity and petroleum consumption could be needed by as early as next month if oil imports coming from the strait have not resumed\u00a0and domestic reserves, enough to cover about eight months of the country\u2019s consumption, are further depleted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ll continue to monitor the current situation regarding the supply and demand of essential goods and their prices, and respond flexibly and won\u2019t rule out any possibilities,\u201d Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Thursday during parliamentary questioning about possibly seeking the public\u2019s cooperation to conserve electricity and reduce consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even as Japan dips into its vast reserves of oil, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,1435,85,87,46,14989,5839,4374],"class_list":{"0":"post-375852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-energy","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-japanese-economy","14":"tag-oil","15":"tag-u-s"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}