The first shipment of goods sent out by the US after the Iran conflict is expected to arrive in Japan on Sunday.

The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry announced that a tanker carrying American crude oil for Cosmo Oil is expected to arrive in the waters near Tokyo as early as Sunday, marking Japan's first successful securing of such oil supply since the Iran crisis erupted. The ministry's deputy chief of emergency crisis management, Narumi Hosokawa, revealed on Friday that the tanker loaded with crude oil on March 22 in Texas is expected to arrive near Chiba via the Panama Canal on April 26. According to a spokesperson for Cosmo, the tanker is carrying 910,000 barrels of crude oil. The Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry also stated that Japan will begin releasing approximately 36 million barrels of oil from the national reserves on May 1, marking the start of the second round of release actions. This batch of oil is equivalent to about 20 days of consumption and is valued at 540 billion yen.