Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Monday the U.S. is opening trade negotiations with Japan. Bessent, in a post on the social platform X, said President Trump has tasked him and U.S. Trade ...

President Trump said his administration had made “big progress” with Japan on negotiations for a one-for-one trade deal Wednesday — with the Asian nation the first of dozens expected to ...

While trade with the United States has suffered, exports to other regions such as Southeast Asia have expanded. The U.S. is charging a 25% tariff on imports of autos, a mainstay of Japan's trade ...

Japan Reports a $63 Billion Trade Surplus With the US as It Talks With Trump on Tariffs TOKYO (AP) — Japan recorded a trade deficit in its March-April fiscal year but racked up a surplus with ...

U.S. President Donald Trump specifically demanded Tokyo pay more for stationing American troops in Japan, increase sales of U.S. automobiles, and reduce the U.S. trade deficit, several Japanese ...

The Trump Administration has described Japan’s domestic protectionist policies for the rice industry as “highly regulated and nontransparent.” How the trade talks ultimately go could have ...

Brennan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images Japanese officials will talk trade in Washington Wednesday, President Donald Trump said—but that’s not all they'll discuss. “Japan is coming in ...

As Japan’s chief trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa heads to the US to kick off trade talks, he faces the risk of being forced to discuss currencies more than he wants, a scenario that may add ...

The stronger export growth yielded a trade surplus last month after two straight months of deficits, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday. Japan recorded a trade surplus of 584 billion yen ($3.9 ...

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organization, told Ishiba that she has high expectations for Japan as a champion of open markets as U.S. President Donald Trump disrupts ...