By Michael Schiffer The following is a contribution to the Mainichi Shimbun from Michael Schiffer, who served as assistant ...

July 26 marks 80 years since the 1945 Potsdam Declaration, in which the United States, Britain and China called on Japan to ...

Trump believes he can deploy tariffs without tradeoffs or distortions. In reality, each new tariff move creates both.

While they are impossible to measure, emotions such as liking or hatred, admiration or contempt—the quotidian stuff of human ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said there was a 50-50 chance or perhaps less that the United States would reach a ...

Japan's chief negotiator reached an agreement with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in mid-June on a deal offering massive Japanese investment in the United States in exchange for a reduction in ...

Japanese Ambassador Endo Kazuya has underscored the various aspects of partnership between Manila and Tokyo to mark the 69th Japan-Philippines Friendship Day.

South Korea's Industry Minister Kim Jung-kwan and top trade envoy Yeo Han-koo will meet U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in Washington again on Friday in a bid to move closer to a deal on ...

The United Auto Workers is "deeply angered" by Trump's 15% tariff deal with Japan and said "a better deal would have held ...

Canada's main stock index edged higher on Friday, led by technology shares, even as U.S. President Donald Trump suggested the ...

As President Donald Trump’s tariffs add to a sense of uncertainty in Japan, the Sanseito party and its leader Sohei Kamiya made gains on a “Japanese first” platform.

Since then, nine countries - Armenia, Slovenia, Ireland, Norway, Spain, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and ...