Japan’s prime minister heaped praise on the US president, seeking to replicate the friendship between Donald Trump and Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated in 2022.

President Donald Trump said he wanted the U.S. to eliminate its trade deficit with Japan during a meeting with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba that saw the visiting Japanese ...

Trump also announced alongside the Japanese prime minister that Nippon Steel was dropping its $14.1 billion acquisition of ...

Determined to strike a chord with Trump to improve his political standing at home, Ishiba arrived at the White House with promises to increase Japanese investment in the U.S., to cooperate on AI, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he wants to work on reducing the trade deficit with ...

U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the White House on Friday and said the two ...

Washington — President Donald Trump on Friday suggested that Nippon Steel would no longer buy U.S. Steel as planned, but the Japanese company would instead invest in the symbolically important ...

The 2024 deficit was a record $1.2 trillion, marking the fourth consecutive trade deficit above $1 trillion and the sixth ...

After three decades of near-zero inflation, there are signs that Japan’s economy can sustainably converge to a new equilibrium. Inflation has surpassed the Bank of Japan’s 2-percent target for over ...

The free trade orthodoxy is being transformed into something else. Just to review a bit of recent history: Former President ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's pledge to contain yields on 10-year Treasury notes met some skepticism in the bond market on Thursday, as inflationary pressures and expectations of a widening ...