Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi criticized U.S. President Trump's announcement of a 24 percent reciprocal tariff on Japan but didn't reveal any plans for retaliatory measures.

Japan is sending a team to negotiate on trade, U.S. President Donald Trump said, adding that he spoke earlier on Monday with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who separately said he told ...

Trump's announcement came on social media on Friday, the same day that Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's minister in charge of economic policy, met with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other ...

"Japan has serious concerns regarding whether the measures are consistent with WTO agreements and the Japan-U.S. Trade Agreement," Ishiba told a news conference April 3, after details of Trump's ...

WASHINGTON--U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will visit him next week at the White House and he looks forward to the conversation.

Japan is also prepared to spend up to 1 trillion yen (US$6.9 billion) on US-made semiconductors. Tokyo is reportedly set to increase its contributions to the cost of stationing US troops in Japan.

TOKYO -- Former Vice Foreign Minister Takeo Mori, who has first-hand experience dealing with the U.S. under Donald Trump, says Japan must accept the president-elect as a leader who embodies the U ...