The Japanese government does not expect the outcome of Sunday's House of Councillors election to affect its tariff negotiations with the United States, the top negotiator said, even as the ruling ...

Anthony Albanese says the delayed first meeting with the president is not hurting Australian interests, with other countries ...

TOKYO] Japan’s ruling coalition is likely to lose its majority in the upper house, an exit poll for Sunday’s (Jul 20) election showed, potentially fuelling political instability in the world’s ...

Economic revitalization minister Ryosei Akazawa plans to visit the United States this week at the earliest for an eighth ...

Japan's top tariff negotiator Ryosei Akazawa said Saturday he intends to visit the United States possibly early next week for an eighth round of trade talks, before a 25 percent tariff on Japan comes ...

Japan's top tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, said on Saturday he planned to visit Washington next week to hold further ...

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday that a trade deal with Japan remained possible, following talks in Tokyo ahead of the looming August 1 imposition of new tariffs.

Since he was sworn into office in January, Trump has threatened and implemented tariffs that dramatically change the ...

A mutually beneficial U.S.-Japan tariff agreement is still possible, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Friday after ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba discussed the potential for a beneficial ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has ruled for most of the post-war period, and its partner Komeito, are forecast to lose their majority in a repeat of last year's ...

Throughout the spring, Ishiba battled to reach a deal on the government’s budget and to assuage concerns among the public ...