Japan’s newly elected Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, told U.S. President Donald Trump at their meeting in Tokyo earlier this week that Japan would find it difficult to ban LNG imports from Russia, Japanese government officials told Reuters on Wednesday. President Trump visited Japan earlier this week and held bilateral talks with Takaichi and other top Japanese officials. The two leaders praised a new “golden age of the ever-growing U.S.-Japan Alliance” and signed a framework agreement to support the mining and processing…