The prospect of an interim trade deal between the US and India before the August 1 deadline have dimmed, according to sources ...

The U.S. dollar traded in a tight range on Tuesday after a brief fall at the start of the week, as investors watched out for ...

South Korea's new finance minister and the country's top trade envoy will meet in Washington with U.S. counterparts on Friday ...

Japan’s chief trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa met with US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Monday as an Aug. 1 deadline ...

TOKYO -- As Japan readies for an eighth round of tariff negotiations with the U.S., Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's government is on shaky ground after his ruling coalition lost its majority in Sunday ...

Tokyo and Washington have been negotiating a deal to avoid 25% US tariffs on Japanese exports to the world's largest economy.

The defeat prompted some of his own party to deliberate his future as the opposition weighed a no-confidence motion. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Japan's chief tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, said Monday that he will aim for some kind of trade agreement with the ...

Tokyo stocks ended flat Tuesday, with the Japanese ruling coalition's major setback in a national election weighing on the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's coalition failed to secure a majority in the upper house elections, winning only 47 seats. This defeat leaves Ishiba's government in the minority and prompts ...

This means that Ishiba no longer has easy control over the upper or lower houses of parliament; last October, the LDP lost ...

Focus is now on how quickly Tokyo can strike a trade deal with Washington and on Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's future at ...