Many Japanese rice traders expected in June that prices of the staple food would drop over the next three months, data from a public-interest association showed Friday, with the government releasing ...

Trade talks are intensifying as the deadline nears for increased US tariffs. The European Union aims for a deal with ...

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The Trump administration has struggled to reach the number of agreements it initially suggested would be possible with the ...

TOKYO – Concerns about trade talks possibly stalling is spreading within the Japanese government following U.S. President Donald Trump’s comment on Tuesday that cast doubt on reaching an agreement on ...

President Donald Trump has been ramping up his tariff threats against Japan, accusing the country of refusing to buy U.S.

Biodiversity continued to decrease in most of the areas we studied, irrespective of population increase or decrease. Only ...

US President Donald Trump shocked many people twice – first by announcing tariffs on dozens of countries in April and then ...

Japan’s attempt to strike a deal with the US before Donald Trump’s deadline next week has hit an unlikely sticking point: ...

The Japanese government has informed the United States that its chief negotiator intends to conduct an eighth round of ...

Meanwhile, President Trump on Wednesday said he had reached a trade deal with Vietnam, one week ahead of a July 9 deadline ...

Ambitious goal of 90 deals in 90 days increasingly difficult with less than a week before tariff pause ends, experts say ...