Japan's top tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, held detailed phone discussions with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Thursday and Saturday in a bid to ease trade tensions. The talks come just ...

These tariffs could reach as high as 70% and may take effect on ... While deals with Britain and Vietnam have been reached, ...

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Sunday he won't "easily compromise" in talks with Washington as Tokyo seeks to ...

When the Berlin Wall fell nearly four decades ago, many in the West celebrated, believing that free market economics had finally put the scourge of centralized planning in the rearview mirror. But ...

Mahathir Mohamad, one of the world's oldest living former heads of government, turns 100. Born in 1925, he entered politics ...

Heading into the final days before the July 9 deadline, negotiators are scrambling to come up with trade pacts ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said today he won’t “easily compromise” in talks with Washington as Tokyo seeks to avert President Donald ...

The Trump administration is on the verge of closing its initial chapter in its dramatic changes of America's foreign economic ...

From Asia to Latin America, governments and central banks are on alert as the US approaches a key tariff deadline, sparking ...

Economic revitalization minister Ryosei Akazawa, chief tariff negotiator, recently held two rounds of telephone talks with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over U.S. President Donald Trump’s ...

US ally mounts most ambitious push in decades to revitalise sector dominated by Chinese and South Korean groups ...

With a crucial July 9 deadline nearing, Japan scrambles to secure a tariff exemption from the Trump administration amid ...