I am very grateful to Dr. Tetsuo Morikawa from the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan, for kindly providing part of the materials used in this article.
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Liao, J.X. (2016). Japan: Natural Gas. In: Tiess, G., Majumder, T., Cameron, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mineral and Energy Policy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40871-7_82-1
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