Japan's Economy Minister Ryosei Akazawa has been appointed as trade negotiator with the United States, the government's top ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has attended the opening ceremony for Expo 2025 Osaka and expressed his hope that the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will instruct his cabinet as early as next week to compile a supplementary budget to ...

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during press conference at his office in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2024. (Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has instructed ...

The push to hold bilateral trade talks comes as Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba convened a full-cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning to discuss the tariffs. Later, his administration selected ...

Trump's punishing tariffs have shaken a global trading order that has persisted for decades and raised fears of a recession.

Tomiichi Murayama, who as prime minister issued a landmark statement of “remorse” for Japan’s actions in World War II, marked his 100th birthday on March 2, expressing his hope that the ...

with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who separately said he told Trump to rethink tariff policies. Trump's decision to impose a 25 per cent levy on auto imports and a reciprocal 24 per ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is scheduled to hold talks with the head of Japan's biggest labor union umbrella group on Monday, as he has pledged to take measures to achieve wage hikes at smaller ...

IWO-TO, Japan (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito on Monday visited Iwo Jima to pay tribute to those who died on the island where ...

Trading was volatile as investors struggled to find a bottom after recent steep declines driven by the president's trade ...