If Russia decided to end all exports of natural gas to Japan, we suspect that Japan’s GDP would fall by around 0.5%. However, the hit could be larger as there is now less scope to reduce energy usage than after the Great East Japan Earthquake and a bigger risk that already stretched supply chains break.
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