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 and President Donald Trump had a phone call about trade and will start negotiations ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to pause his so-called reciprocal tariffs for 90 days is a "positive ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Tuesday tapped his close aide Ryosei Akazawa, minister in charge of economic and fiscal ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Monday the U.S. is opening trade negotiations with Japan. Bessent, in a post on ...

Tokyo, April 3 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government has urged the United States to exempt Japan from its reciprocal tariffs, Chief Cabinet Secretary ... from Japan. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ...

China says it will “fight to the end” and take countermeasures against the United States to safeguard its own interests after ...

Tokyo, Japan –Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Tuesday appointed economic revitalization minister Ryosei Akazawa to ...

Support for the cabinet stood at 39.6 percent last month ... to begin a second term that continued through 2020, making him postwar Japan's longest-serving prime minister. He was assassinated during ...

Japan's parliament passed the budget for fiscal 2025 on Monday, the day before the new financial year starts, after Prime ...

Rice prices and inflation are putting pressure on Ishiba’s minority government.