A recent round of tariff threats has added a new layer of uncertainty, but the monthslong track record affords economists an ...

TOKYO — Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces an increasingly uphill battle in Sunday’s upper house election, and a ...

More than two-thirds of Japanese firms believe the government should compile an extra budget later this year to mitigate the ...

Small and medium-sized firms like Mitsuwa Electric that form the backbone of Japan's economy have weathered many storms over ...

Unlike the European Union, the Japanese government has made no indication it plans to impose any kind of reciprocal tariff on ...

President Donald Trump on Monday set a 25% tax on goods imported from Japan and South Korea, as well as new tariff rates on a ...

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the U.S. will probably "live by the letter" on tariffs with Japan and may have ...

Japan has reported a trade deficit of 2.2 trillion yen ($15 billion) for the first six month of this year as exports were hit by President Donald Trump's higher tariffs.

In Japan, the government could have early on offered the Trump administration conciliatory measures, like buying more tariff-free American rice to help fill domestic shortages and allowing cars ...

Fears of a recession are mounting in the world's fourth-largest economy, after export to the US declined for the second month ...

Mass layoffs: The State Department formally notified employees on Thursday that layoffs would begin “soon,” as part of a ...