Japan’s trade agreement with the US could serve as the benchmark for many other deals currently being negotiated with ...

Japan's chief tariff negotiator Ryosei Akazawa speaks to the media after a meeting between Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in Tokyo, on July 18, 2025. Shuji Kajiyama ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is bragging that Japan has given him, as part of a new trade framework, US$550 billion to invest in the United States. It’s an astonishing figure, but still subject to ...