TOKYO -- Japan needs to be pragmatic about its energy procurement and think twice about leaving a Russian natural gas project, a senior politician in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party said on Sunday.
Hiroshige Seko, the party's upper house secretary general and a longtime minister for economy, trade and industry, said that Japan has been investing for years in the Sakhalin-1 and Sakhalin-2 offshore oil and gas developments, "even before we knew if there was gas or not."
