Commentary / World Mar 17, 2020
Globalists may soon become extinct
by A. Gary Shilling
The disruptions caused by the spread of the coronavirus mean supply chains will be moved closer to home rather than in foreign lands.
Business May 26, 2019
The Japanese and U.S. trade chiefs met Saturday in an attempt to advance talks on a bilateral deal ahead of Monday's summit between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Donald Trump, but the two sides still remain at odds, Economic revitalization chief Toshimitsu Motegi ...
Commentary / World Apr 23, 2019
The international economic policy game
by Koichi Hamada
We need trade competition among economic agents but cooperation among governments
Business Sep 14, 2018
Japan seeks WTO panel over South Korea's stainless steel bar duties
Japan has asked the World Trade Organization to set up a dispute settlement panel to challenge South Korea's 14-year-old anti-dumping duties on Japanese stainless steel bars. South Korea in 2004 imposed anti-dumping duties of 15.39 percent on imported Japanese stainless steel bars, which are used ...
Business / Economy Jun 8, 2018
Japan's current account stays in black at ¥1.85 trillion but down from April '17
Japan reported a current account surplus of ¥1.85 trillion ($16.86 billion) in April — marking the 46th straight month of a positive figure for the economic indicator — as a result of the country's robust exports, government data showed Friday. But the surplus shrank by ...
Reference | FYI Jun 4, 2018
U.S. trade deficit with Japan not necessarily the bugbear painted by Trump
by Cory Baird
The protectionist tune on trade that U.S. President Donald Trump often sings is hardly a unique problem for Japanese policymakers who have long faced pressure over Japan's strength in exporting everything from vehicles to video games all over the globe. But often lost in these ...
Business Apr 20, 2018
Still reasons for optimism despite trade fears, says Panama Canal CEO
by Cory Baird
Although a war of words over tariffs has intensified between China and the United States, there is still good reason to be optimistic about prospects for global trade, the administrator and CEO of the Panama Canal Authority said in an interview with The Japan ...
Business / Economy Mar 19, 2018
Japan posted a goods trade surplus of ¥3.41 billion ($32.1 million) in February amid continued strength in exports, but rising energy imports weighed on the black ink, government data showed Monday. The trade surplus came as exports rose 1.8 percent from a year earlier to ...
Business Mar 7, 2018
The World Trade Organization on Wednesday selected Junichi Ihara, Japan's representative in Geneva, as the next chairman of the WTO General Council. Ihara, who will hold the post for a one-year term, becomes the second Japanese to head the General Council following Shotaro Oshima, who ...
Business / Economy Feb 19, 2018
Japan's trade balance swung to a deficit of ¥943.4 billion ($8.9 billion) in January, falling into the red for the first time in eight months after imports rose due largely to the higher cost of natural resources, government data showed Monday. The deficit was still ...
Business | FOCUS Jan 29, 2018
Did a fear of 'losing out' push Trump to alter his stance on the TPP trade deal?
by Ko Hirano
One of the first actions U.S. President Donald Trump took after being sworn in on Jan. 20 last year was to "permanently withdraw" the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, then a 12-nation free trade agreement that he blasted as costing American jobs. During the ...
Business / Economy Dec 18, 2017
Exports to Asia help Japan mark trade surplus for sixth month in row
Japan ran a trade surplus of ¥113.36 billion in November amid strong exports to Asia — staying in the black for the sixth straight month — but the figure shrank from a year earlier as energy imports jumped, according to government data released Monday. Robust ...