CTH has said to watch the U.S.-Japan trade relationship closely because the outlines of multiple geopolitical shifts can be referenced from a new strategic relationship surrounding multiple sectors, including energy.
The U.S, relationship with Japan is both leverage and a hedge against old alliances that may seek to disrupt the global reset currently underway through President Trump policy. The issues with the European Union, U.K, USMCA and other tenuous allies, look entirely different when President Trump has alternative partnerships for massive energy exports.
ENERGY NEWS – In a major move to secure stable energy supplies amid escalating geopolitical tensions, Japan has inked deals worth up to $56 billion with the United States for oil, natural gas, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) purchases and investments.
This agreement, finalized at the Asia-Pacific Energy Security Forum in Tokyo on March 14, 2026, underscores Japan’s push to diversify its energy imports and deepen economic ties with the US under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s administration.
The deals come as part of a broader framework stemming from the 2025 US-Japan trade agreement, where Japan pledged $550 billion in US investments over several years, with energy as a key pillar.
The $56 billion package represents a significant escalation in Japan’s commitment to American energy, building on an initial $36 billion tranche announced earlier in 2026.
This latest round emphasizes immediate purchases and long-term infrastructure projects, responding to global market volatility driven by conflicts in the Middle East and disruptions in key shipping routes like the Strait of Hormuz.
[…] The agreements encompass a mix of direct energy purchases, joint ventures, and infrastructure investments. (read more)
As a nation that needs energy partnerships, Japan seeks stability and predictability. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has gone all-in on a strategic energy partnership with the United States.
As the tectonic plates are shaken:
♦ If Canada wants to try and leverage the energy trade infrastructure against a USMCA reset, President Trump has Venezuela production as an offset.
Japanese automakers have already told Canadian trade ministers that if Canada loses the USMCA, there’s no value in maintaining auto manufacturing north of the border – because the target customers are all in the USA. Japan would move all production out of Canada. I doubt China could replace at scale.
♦ If Europe, who is now dependent on LNG from Norway and the USA, wants to create geopolitical friction, President Trump now has Japan as a replacement customer. More behavioral leverage.
U.S. firms are making a lot of money selling LNG to Europe, but Trump has just created a customer base that is more reliable and politically consistent.
♦ Then, as the short-term lifting of LNG and oil sanctions on Russia is proving (petrodollars used), think about the potential for India and Southeast Asia to be supported by Russian exports. Who holds that distribution key, again Trump.
It is not accidental that India is sending support vessels to the Strait of Hormuz as requested by President Trump. Here’s the kicker… With oil and gas from Russia, India doesn’t need the Iranian oil and gas; yet, they are sending support. Why? Because Prime Minister Modi wants Trump to keep their Russian purchase exemptions in place.
We can see how a strong collaborative relationship with Japan can negate any negative economic impact the mask wearing Europeans and Canadians might want to try and leverage. In actuality, Canada, the U.K and Europe don’t have any leverage at all in the new world of trade.
One way to look at this is to say the primary “Build Back Better” nations, those most entrenched in the selling of climate change as a tool for manipulation and control, are being positioned to have the least amount of input into a new, tiered set of established nations for global energy development.
Take a look at that Russian Sanctions map again. The nations in yellow created the sanctions:
Now, overlay the new energy trade relationships that are forming.
The USA fuels the Western Hemisphere.
Russia fuels the Eastern Hemisphere.
Europe is reliant on the Middle East.
China loses geopolitical power, Russia gains power.
Europe loses geopolitical power, India gains power.
Deal with Iran and most conflict is resolved in the Middle East.
The USA controls the Western Hemisphere. And with India and Japan as allies, the Indo-Pacific outline is realized.
I’ll take Japan over the EU any day of the week.
Stable, and demographically homogeneous and patriotic.
And twice on Sunday
And not stupidly destroying their culture.
I’ve been watching YouTube So!o Solo Travel videos (a young man travels on trains and ferries — some like cruise ships, and also trips outside of Japan) and am surprised at how many place in Japan (such as train stations and menus) include English words.
Back in’76, I spent about 3 months hitchhiking the length and breadth of Japan. Even at that time, highways and trains had English signs.
I am not too fond. I’m old enough to remember.
If you mean WWII, the people alive now are not the same people. From what I’ve seen, Japanese people as a group want the same things we want.
Japan was also restricted by the terms of surrender?
Yet, here in our country…we have ‘changes’ and people are not the same as on 9/12…?
Yet two ancient cultures, Japan and Islam….no comparison. Japanese have decorum and respect within their culture…that other, just seems to be based on violence and abuse.
Unfortunately, Japan is now struggling with the Islamic population they have. They are resisting the takeover tactics that follows Islamic immigration everywhere.
I am very interested in seeing proof of that. Japan has one of the most restrictive set of immigration laws. I’d be surprised if there are any muslims in Nippon at all.
For years, Japan has been providing in-residence vocational and business training programs for SE Asians, including young men from Indonesia – the world’s largest Muslim country. I think the Japanese reported approximately 250,000 Indonesians reside in Japan.
When I was in S E Asia many moons ago, Indonesia was predominantly Buddhist.
Indonesia is over 85% Muslim (almost all are Sunni).
Not so much anymore. The in laws nephew was offered a job teaching in Japan, became a citizen, married and had children with a Japanese woman.
Do you know what you’re talking about? I think not! I do business in Japan. Islamic immigration. Excuse me….!? Japan increased immigration from 26 to 42 (not exact numbers, but close) about 10 years ago and many were voted out of office for this. That represents a 62% increase and that was enough to trigger a massive vote-out of elected officials. There is no Islamic population issue in Japan. Please use factual information. Thank you and God bless.
Exactly, when on the ground in Japan, you see no Islamic influence.
What about the porous border?
Notice Japan’s is quite strict.
To remember what? How about watching Captain Tibbits ‘This is your life’s TV episode 1955 to witness how both nations sought to heal the wounds and ask for forgiveness. How about folks like my families friends that managed Japanese family farms and held those funds for them upon release from internment camps. We looked to each other to forge a new relationship and repair what was so badly damaged. Japan is a lovely nation, with kind, sincere and genuinely caring people.
The Koreans and Chinese remember.
The SAME NATIONALISM simmers –
BUT
IS CONTROLLED and FOCUSED on ECONOMICS
i WISH The UNITED STATES HAD a FRACTION of the NATIONALISM that Precipitated Our Nations COLLIDING
( btw, DO NOT Maneuver / Encourage JAPAN Into the Situation that CAUSED World War 2 in the Pacific and Indian Oceans – thanks to Roosevelt and His Covey of Bolsheviks )
jmo…
No No No !!! wrong.
Japan’s militarism began in the ‘20s and exponentially grew worse in the ‘30s.
FDR was right to disassociate from Japanese aggression.
I’ve heard that argument before and it always sounds to me like the people who condemn the Crusades, conveniently overlooking the centuries of Muslim Crusades that preceded it! — Don’t Do That.
Japan’s militarism began in the 1880s. Of course for Koreans, it goes back much farther than that. They still remember the Imjin War. Check out the movie “The Admiral: Roaring Currents” as an example.
As far as the Crusades, the Fourth Crusade ended up destroying Orthodox Christian Constantinople. But I do think re-establishing a Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem to rule both Hebrews and Arabs would be better than the status quo.
Right on. Someday the halo of fake sanctity from the WWII mythology will eventually die and people will finally see FDR as the treacherous war-monger he actually was.
I rrmember, too. But a good friend who was a Marine in WWII and part of the post-war occupation of Japan spoke highly of the Japanese.
So did my grandpa.
So did my Marine husband.
As a teener back in the 60’s, I remember things from Japan as garbage, not so today! Quality stuff now! I drive a Toyota and it’s reliable as all Hell!
As did my father in law, who was a Japanese pprisoner of War for almost 3 years. He never held it against the average peoples, who mostly wanted it over and to live in peace, just as our people did. He even traveled to Japan just before he passed and had nothing but praise for it and it’s people. Not sure I could be that forgiving, tbh.
Move on, FFS.
Japan deserved what they got in 1945.
They didn’t deserve MacArthur’s generous spirit on the deck of the Battleship Missouri.
the tuxedoed Japanese diplomats didn’t know what to expect and were pleasantly surprised just as they were with MacArthur’s decision to keep the Emperor, just as they were with the occupation which restored them into the “Community of Nations” — and oh by the way, small, trivial aside … Japan is a great ally vs CCP … just a thought
Japan was a food importing country so when we stopped virtually all shipping, 10 million began to starve. We gave the food intended for our invasion troops to them saving most of them. Many Japanese were very thankful for that for years.
That’s like saying America got what it deserved in 2001.
I read about something I never knew about: the Japanese military somehow separated from the Emperor and went insane . I need to look up more about that.
it rekindles my astonishment at a great puzzle: the Cherry Trees in DC were a gift to President Taft in 1912. Yamamoto enjoyed his time in America which led him to have insight about us. And ever after WWII, the Japanese have been good partners, even if too good businessmen!
Japan went crazy for a time, as did the French in the 1790s.
I often wonder how much of the world views our American social dystopia today (?!)
Also, forgot to mention, do you know why Japanese love baseball?
It’s because they fell in love with Babe Ruth who went on tours there! Babe Ruth! everybody loved the Babe! and we loved the Cherry Trees … then came WWII, is that not the definition of sad 😢
Money is the deciding issue!
Yes… I often wonder what my now deceased Dad would be thinking after spending 2 years as a Japanese prisoner of war. Not too kindly would be my guess.
Most importantly – They are Polite!
Japan is a “Great Wall” against China.
And no welcome invasion by ME muslims like in the EU!!!
“Walk carefully through life, so you can arrive at death safely.” -Japanese proverb.
The EU in Canada go green, no hard power as in military power. They are in the world of hurt plus no friends.
there’ll always be an england, as the ol’ WWII song goes 🙂
Clearly the mass third world imported replacement population has made Canada and Europe dumber. A few more years they’ll be written off as lost societies. Sad.
Reaping what they have sowed. 🇺🇸
One day will we be called upon to retrieve them from their third world abyss. Or, will we have to do it out of self preservation, so as not to fall into the same fate, if it’s not too late already.
I’d just as soon not do THAT again. They bite the hand that saved them. Twice. No thanks, hard pass.
Merely enforcing the universal mandate of “Never Let A Good Deed(s) Go Unpunished.”
Yes, true, but aren’t we importing legally and illegally the same folks? Minnesota, California are certainly good case studies.
Michigan and how many mosques are in Texas ?
The answer is 300
NY.
I’m thinking Shinzo Abe would approve of this.
Agreed.
Nice one, sis…
Fills me with bittersweet melancholy.
They were such good friends. A sad loss indeed.
I know he still feels the loss, yes.
That’s why China killed Abe.
imo, Japan is one of our best allies.
Understand. But, we need to step back and look at the big picture here. The US does not have allies. The US only has economic interests. When our needs are in close alignment with another nation, our mutual economic interests combine to form joint prosperity. This is the relationship we have with Japan.
That is true of every national relationship. “Alliances” are based on mutual interests. They aren’t permanent, but some last longer than others. Just one thought: economic interests are really important, but there are others that factor in.
The European countries that for 80 years have been called our “allies” would be more accurately called our “parasites”.
Perfect!
And just like that, our brilliant President has strategically cut the EU China and Canada completely off the playing field. Oh well, they were warned.
Now we see why the corrupt IC has been upping the temperature of their pitiful attempts. I wonder if we can quantify the grift money that will no longer be in circulation . There is an algebra equation in there, I’m certain. 😂
Isn’t it amazing to sit back and watch our PDJT work? ‘ Hard not to see God’s hand in all of this.
Truth.
Thank you for the good news, Sundance!
I mean, great news!
Kings of the East.
Checkmate….
Curious to see how that map’s colors change as new nations align with the new coalitions that are building due to the actions of Trump-47.
Before it was those aligned with the Build Back Better and those aligned with the BRICS+, and it sure seems that we are watching an entirely new alignment being built in real time with the changes in Venezuela, Cuba, Iran along with the Abraham Accord nations, the new Shield of the Americas agency, and adding Japan to the mix.
So much going on it really is hard to stay on top of and the maps help. Also curious if we will see a lot of the BRICS+ nations start to have second thoughts on who they choose to align with.
Been to Japan 4 times spending a month at a time.
Planning my next visit this November-December.
A culture built on trust and respect. Reminds me went I grew up in a small American town in the 1960-70s.
Interesting observation.
Keep a wary eye on India. Just sayin’.
Wise advise.
“Build Back Better” was always based on the presumption that the West’s fossil fuel-based economies must be dismantled, scrapped and replaced with a Greta Thunberg-type system of feel good economics. You don’t need to build anything back unless you first tear it down.
Trump knew from the beginning that the globalists’ cure to what ails the world was far worse than the disease…that the global threat from cow flatulence was bullshit and that the most harmful greenhouse gases were coming out of the mouths of the EU’s leaders!
Only in Hollywood movies are there economies that prosper on windmills and green algae. Only now are dim, woke minds realizing that ever-so-green-and-clean electricity isn’t mined, but must be generated by burning coal!
Now Japan is showing all the Dreamers what the Realists knew from the beginning…that the developed world runs on oil, LNG and coal to run its factories and heat its homes.
And everyone else will be left out in the cold!
There is no such thing as fossil fuel. That idea was debunked years ago. There is no way there was that many prehistoric plants and animals ultimately morphed into the what is now trillions of barrels of oil that have been extracted from the earth.
You are correct. It is now believed by people with brains, that oil and gas is formed between the crust and mantle on a continuing basis.
CORRECT. the term is abiotic.
makes sense to me that Our Father in Heaven gave us infinite resources. It’s almost as if Earth was designed this way … just a thought
Heavenly Father provides all we need here on Earth, we just haven’t utilized them properly. An example: proper diets including herbs.
I learn something new every day…but the message in my piece remains unchanged.
I sense that Five Eyes are probably starting to have vision problems.
Cataracts mostly. Can’t see the forest for the trees and fog!
This may also harm the Aussies. 40% of Japan LNG imports are from there.
I’ll take Russia, Japan, Greenland and getting Venezuela, Venezuela was the most productive and wealthy country in SA, up and running and a rebuild of Cuba over the EU, Canada and UN any day of the week. Pretty grand reset.
Sundance, we, (me) ☺️
deeply appreciate your insight and explanations!
The LORD has Truly BLESSED you with this ability.
Thank you!
Looking forward to more instruction Professor!
(several history textbooks in the making and desperately needed)
Germans are genetically industrious. Cleary their leaders have been ordered by the Secret Societies to plunge Germany into poverty so they can pick the carcass and install a World Government/Caliphate.
Interesting assessment…
The President is working so effectively to win the race; the race to place the US in a position that can’t be subject to the destructive policies and control agents of the EU,.other state actors like China, and the globalists. He’s got about 2 more years to work it. His stamina is amazing.
The hardest part is the deceitful opposition within our own government. The Uniparty doesn’t want the grift gravy train to stop.
GO MAGA.
We continue to call upon The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY! 🙏🙏🙏
“The USA controls the Western Hemisphere. And with India and Japan as allies, the Indo-Pacific outline is realized.”
Let “them” (the primary “Build Back Better” nations, those most entrenched in the selling of climate change as a tool for manipulation and control) put that in their pipe and smoke it.
Sundance; Problem with your Scenario…
India is Dependent on IRAN and other Middle East Suppliers…
How do you Expect them to Get Russian Oil, if Ukraine is Torpedoing It.???
Why would that make them a US Ally.??? It would make them a Russian Ally.!?!?!?
Why Wouldn’t USA be the Supplier of Choice{or Force} to China.!?!?!?
From Alaska to China is Shorter than Mid-East to China… Just Ask Japan.!!!
This is All so Much Simpler, If WE Control Kharg Island.!!!
and the Straights of Hormuz.
Then WE have EVERY ONE as OUR Ally.!!!
Winning, winning, winning🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Anyone tired yet?
Never tired of Winning!!!
I hope they go for some geothermal too
What a strategy.
5-dimensional chess.
And USA and Russian Federation will jointly power Africa via modern nuclear.
Remember how Africa kicked out the French?
Rosatom (Russia) already holds about 70% of the global export market for new nuclear plants, with various nuclear agreements with about 20 African nations.
I love this Movie 🎥
What a plan, what an article. Trump and Sundance make it look easy and it is anything but easy. Professionals and big thinkers. Wow.
We’re Basically cleaning up the ME for Europe’s benifit.
JMO.
Sundance, that is a great summary of the performance on the world stage of the greatest rope-a-doper of all times, the G.O.A.T. President Trump.
He is resetting the table of America’s international relations that will help protect the MAGA / America First changes he is making upwards to a century after his last term of office.
If I may suggest, there is one more step that would be the capstone of his plan, aka arranging the desert plates and silverware on the world table. It would be the following:
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President Trump has a plan for the anti-American, globalist, treacherous EU elites ….. and he is stickin’ to it.
Be on the lookout for the REPURPOSING OF NATO.
The USA isn’t going to get out of “2026” NATO.
Instead, with the aim towards securing the eastern flank of the USA. … President Trump will use his MAGA skills to turn the resources of the multi-country NATO defense force from mainly concentrating on Russia, to concentrating on the European’s new enemy within their walls, …….. the dangerous, non-nationals who have been allowed to invade their countries by the EU.
America’s expelling of the illegals out of its own borders will be an example to the nationalist European’s of what needs to be done in Europe to expel all of the dangerous, non-nationals out of their countries …. the EU be damned.
NATO (funded mainly by the Europeans) will be “repurposed” from defending against Russia to deporting the hordes of dangerous non-nationals who have been let into Europe’s borders, much like biden’s treacherous open borders let in 26,000,00 non-nationals into the USA.
The demand for expulsion, following the example of President Trump’s mass deportation of America’s invaders, will come from the nationalist citizens of each country through NATO, not from their leaders.
Along with using NATO to deport the non-nationals, the nationalist citizens will vote out the crop of anti-American, globalist leaders who got them into the EU mess in the first place, aka akin to America’s 11/5/24 election.
TOTAL EXIT, coming as the dangerous hordes are driven out of each European country (including Ireland) and the remaining nationalist citizens vote in MEGA politicians, Make-Europe-Great-Again politicians.
BREXIT was just a trial run. TOTAL EXIT, will be EU’s elites swan-song.
EU, destined for the ash pile of socialist / communist failures, on President Trump’s watch…….. aka another step in the process of protecting President Trump’s MAGA / America First changes being made, upwards to a century after his last term of office.
MAGA / America First is not just our motto, it is our duty!
There is a very interesting dynamic in South East Asia that goes un-noticed and is never discussed. Thinking of Russian Oil and Gas going to SE Asia.
We all know about the Large Muslim populations of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan …. but 42% of the Population of SE Asia is Muslim … especially the key larger economically growing states such as Indonesia and Malaya, with Muslim Populations >80%. Russia also has a long “diplomatic” history with these nations as well (as in 50+ years).
Then add India to the list of nations Russia has a long standing relationships (i.e. 50+ years).
Again, the China Inc. lead (for now) BRICS alliance is built upon these long standing Russian relationships … think of a Global “diplomatic” body where Christians, Jews, Hindu’s and Muslims all can sit down to work out issues.
Also, Members of the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) are currently NOT happy with China Inc. The SCO was built outside of BRICS with BRICS members as the cover organization for China Inc.’s Belt and Road … and does NOT include Russia.
Consider as a strategic objective: Russia displaces China Inc. within BRICS and Asian Nations join the Abraham Accords.
This is a big deal.
BUILD -your own.
BACK – what you build.
BETTER – get started.
‘Cause the moochin’ off Uncle Sam has stopped.
MAGA FABULOUS!!