TOKYO -- Japan's chief trade negotiator has defended a tariffs deal with the United State, expressing respect for President Donald Trump and calling him a "tough negotiator." Trade envoy Ryosei ...

Trade envoy Ryosei Akazawa noted that the pact setting on most Japanese exports to the U.S. at 15% was comparable to a deal between Washington and the European Union. Unlike the EU, Japan did not have ...

What is becoming increasingly clear, though, is that firms are responding to U.S. tariffs by stepping up production in their U.S. subsidiaries.” ...

Trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa defended the pact, noting that was comparable to a deal between Washington and the European Union.

Trump’s critique of Japan was in vogue at the time. In the 1970s and 1980s, Japan’s industry, subsidised by the Japanese government, was running ahead of the rest of the world and flooding US markets ...

Japan's government said on Monday that the economy was recovering moderately but that impact from U.S. trade policies was particularly evident in the auto industry.

President Donald Trump’s new tariffs on pharmaceutical imports will not apply to countries with negotiated agreements with the US that contain provisions on drugs, according to a White House official, ...

The European Union and Japan expressed confidence on Friday that they had secured limits on U.S. tariffs on pharmaceuticals, which President Donald Trump said he would impose next week at a rate of ...

A closely watched survey by Japan's central bank shows sentiment among large Japanese manufacturers improved for a second straight quarter, making an interest rate hike more likely.

Gov. McMaster and Isuzu Motors chairman Masanori Katayama held a ceremonial groundbreaking for a new commercial truck assembly plant in Greenville County.

Industrial production dropped 1.2% from the previous month, following the same pace of decline from July, the Economy Ministry reported Tuesday ...

Japan’s outgoing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba held a summit Tuesday with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade wars have pushed the two often-feuding Asian ...