TOKYO: With the world transitioning to new energy sources, relations with Japan are being strengthened, as the research department of the Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security conducted joint workshops with KAPSARC, an energy think tank in Saudi Arabia, last summer. In an interview with Arab News Japan, Toyoda Kohei, of JOGMEC’s Energy Research Division, outlined the unit’s main projects. Toyoda said one of the most important businesses between Saudi Arabia and Japan is a petrochemical project in Petro Rabigh.