{"id":478990,"date":"2026-06-06T07:32:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/478990\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T07:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:32:21","slug":"japans-naphtha-imports-recover-to-80-of-pre-iran-war-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/478990\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s naphtha imports recover to 80% of pre-Iran war levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/markets\/commodities\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Commodities<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Diversification pays off, but price remains high amid ceasefire uncertainty<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/2.jpeg\" alt=\"20260605N Petrochem plant\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Chemical makers in Japan have been finding alternative sources for the plastic raw material as conflict drags on in Iran. (Photo by Tomoki Mera)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japanese companies have made\u00a0progress in securing alternative sources of naphtha as the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz dries up the Middle Eastern supply, with imports in May reaching nearly 80% of\u00a0levels before the Iran war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commodities Diversification pays off, but price remains high amid ceasefire uncertainty Chemical makers in Japan have been finding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[182327,114,85,4425,46,6198,141013,177109,222150,105610,2201],"class_list":["post-478990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-182327","tag-business","tag-il","tag-imports","tag-israel","tag-japans","tag-levels","tag-naphtha","tag-pre-iran","tag-recover","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478990","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=478990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}