Japan has the second strongest economy after the U.S.However, its domestic energy sources are very limited. Thus Japan continuously
encounters the challenge of energy shortages.Since Junichiro Koizumi became the Prime Minister of Japan,in
accordance with a variety of changes of international energypolitics and the increasingly severe situation of internationalenergy, he formulates the national strategy of energy aiming at"Achieving various ways of importing energy , stabilizing theenergy supply". Meanwhile, he advances "energy
diplomacy",making every effort to open up the energy market in MiddleEast, Central Asia, Russia and Africa, and elsewhere. Takinga sweeping view of Junichiro Koizumi's energy diplomacy, wehold that the peculiar characteristics are: multiple energydiplomacy keeps pace with national energy strategies, moneycomes first in energy diplomacy, the energy must be obtained inthe resources battle, the enterprises pay the way for politicaldiplomacy, and thus energy diplomacy is in accordance withpoliticald iplomacy.