Switzerland, meanwhile, is responsible for nearly all of America’s imported precious metal watches. Ethiopia, on the other ...

Investment by Japanese companies in plants and equipment surged to a record in the first quarter led by industries focused on ...

Japan’s economy has hit a rough patch. For the first time in a year, it shrank during the first three months of 2025. The drop was larger than most experts had predicted. According to government data, ...

Japan also had a trade deficit, which measures the value of exports minus imports, a year ago, but the amount rose 60% last month from January 2024. Exports totaled 7.86 trillion yen ($52 billion ...

Americans bought fewer foreign pharmaceuticals, cellphones and cars, and cut purchases of machinery and other supplies.

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Each year, Japan builds approximately 9 million cars and ships roughly 1.5 million of them to the United States. Additionally ...

The Chinese government has agreed on the technical requirements for resuming seafood imports from Japan, according to the ...

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China will resume Japanese seafood imports it banned in 2023 over worries about Japan's discharge slightly radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea, a ...

Japan’s bond market is unraveling. Inflation is rising, auctions are failing, and global investors are starting to price in default risk.

Exports to China, Japan’s second-largest export partner, dropped -4.8%, while shipments to Hong Kong (19.7%), Taiwan (19.5%), and South Korea (11.5%) all recorded double-digit increases.