Japan's cabinet approved Basic Energy Plan on April 11. This means that Japan will restart its nuclear power plants. ANBOUND think tank scholars state that it’s favorable to China in terms of LNG and pipeline natural gas price negotiation. In recent years, Japan and China has been competing to import natural gas from Russia and caused the price of Russian natural gas to increase. It is even more obvious after incident of Fukushima nuclear disaster. After Ukraine crisis and the restart of Japanese nuclear power plants, China has more advantage in negotiating the import price of Russian natural gas and might be able to secure it at a lower price.