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A sample of gallium. China produces over 90% of the world's processed rare earths and rare earth magnets.
BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2025
China starts work on easing rare earth export rules but short of Trump hopes
China is working on easing rare earth export rules, but Washington shouldn't hope for a complete rollback of restrictions, industry insiders said.
A Honda dealership in Irvine, California
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 8, 2025
Japanese automakers warn of billions in tariff losses
Toyota, Honda and Nissan describe the import duties as a "new normal” that the industry will be forced to endure for the foreseeable future.
U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Thursday
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Nov 8, 2025
Did Trump’s Supreme Court tariffs brief include a strategic blunder?
The justices are generally reluctant to take account of a president’s public statements. But extensive quotes from Trump in a key filing may change the legal calculus.
Fisheries minister Norikazu Suzuki announces the resumption of Japanese scallop exports to China at a news conference after a Cabinet meeting on Friday at the National Diet Building in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2025
Japan resumes scallop exports to China
China banned imports of Japanese fishery products following the release of treated water from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant into the sea.
The second Trump administration has challenged the European Union’s hard-won market indispensability and forced it into a defensive posture.
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Nov 7, 2025
Trump 2.0 diminishes European Union power
Despite the EU’s large consumer market, the political and economic union has failed to fully exercise its strengths since the start of the second Trump administration.
The U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington. On Wednesday, Supreme Court justices cast doubt on the approach of imposing tariffs under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 7, 2025
A Trump Supreme Court tariff defeat would add to trade uncertainty
Trump is widely expected to shift to other trade tactics if he faces an adverse ruling, raising the specter of additional chaos.
A news program in Taipei shows the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, on Oct. 30.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 6, 2025
‘Stability’ in U.S.-China competition isn’t surrender
A recent Rand report urges a stable rivalry between the U.S. and China, emphasizing managed competition and the need for mutual recognition of each other's political legitimacy.
Shipping containers from China sit at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, California, on Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Nov 6, 2025
U.S. Supreme Court casts doubt on legality of Trump's global tariffs
Conservative and liberal justices alike raised questions regarding a 1977 law meant for national emergencies gave Trump the power he claims.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on Air Force One after his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, on Oct. 30. During their talks, the two leaders discussed the suspension of rare-earth export controls by China and other issues.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 5, 2025
What Chinese leaders really think of Trump
The Chinese view is that we are entering a prolonged phase of counter-globalization.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, on Oct. 30. Tokyo's strategic positioning between Beijing and Washington is central to countering China’s economic and geopolitical influence.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 5, 2025
What the U.S.-China summit means for Japan
China’s willingness to weaponize commercial dependencies rather than projecting strength exposed the fragility of its economic statecraft.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping leave after a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday.
COMMENTARY
Nov 4, 2025
The U.S. had the spotlight. China stole the show.
Xi’s diplomacy rests on the idea that China represents a "non-Western form of modernization.”
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and then-Economic Revitalization Minister Ryosei Akazawa shake hands on the day they visit the U.S. pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka in July.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Nov 4, 2025
The top U.S. court can't stop all of Trump's tariffs. Deal with it, officials say.
Under one legal authority or another, Trump's tariffs are expected to stay in place long-term.
The United States is expected to push for action against seven vessels suspected of violating United Nations sanctions against North Korea.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 4, 2025
U.S. wants U.N. sanctions on seven vessels over North Korea exports
A U.S. official said the seven vessels have illegally exported North Korean coal and iron ore to China, which could earn Pyongyang hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 3, 2025
Trump’s global tariffs to face challenge before Supreme Court
The court will hear arguments Wednesday on the legality of the U.S. president’s unprecedented use of powers.
State-owned giants in China such as Sinopec and PetroChina have canceled some Russian cargoes in the wake of U.S. sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil last month, according to traders.
BUSINESS
Nov 3, 2025
Russian oil finds fewer takers in China after hit from sanctions
The U.S. and its allies are ratcheting up sanctions on both Russian producers and their customers in a bid to stop the war by choking off Moscow’s oil revenues.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump during a bilateral meeting in Busan on Thursday
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 3, 2025
China to suspend some rare earth curbs and U.S. chip firm probes
Washington will also pause some of Trump's so-called reciprocal tariffs on China for another year and is halting plans to implement a 100% tariff on Chinese exports to the U.S.
Science-themed toy electronics kits for children from the brand MicroKits. When tariffs on Chinese imports spiked above 100% this spring, MicroKits’ founder temporarily stopped importing and slowed down production.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 3, 2025
A toy-maker takes his case against Trump’s tariffs to the Supreme Court
The U.S. president’s tariffs have hit small- and medium-sized businesses particularly hard.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during the APEC conference in Gyeongju, South Korea.
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2025
Carney says Canada can’t get China tariffs lifted right away
The sit-down Friday on the sidelines of the APEC summit in South Korea was the first official bilateral meeting between leaders of Canada and China since 2017.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi holds a news conference in Gyeongju, South Korea, following the end of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum summit on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 2, 2025
Takaichi rules out dissolving Lower House for snap election
The prime minister said her government must focus on accelerating the rollout of economic measures, including steps to tackle inflation.
U.S. President Donald Trump raises his fist as he boards Air Force One before traveling to South Korea, from Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Nov 2, 2025
Trump plays nice with Asian allies stung by repeated threats
While allies in Asia have ample reason to be wary of U.S. President Donald Trump, the message from his regional tour appeared to be that America isn't going anywhere.
The Toyota buyout is a major test for Japan’s reforms
Akio Toyoda, chairman of Toyota Motor, speaks during a media preview at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Oct. 29. Minority investors are challenging the carmaker's bid to take affiliate Toyota Industries Corp. private.
New satellite images suggest 'mass graves' in Sudan's El-Fasher
A general view of a berm construction in Kinin Village near El-Fasher.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.
Takaichi calls for the updating of Japan's economic security law
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to a panel on promoting economic security in Japan on Friday.
Jon Homewood: ‘There’s beauty in what we throw away’
After a peripatetic childhood around the world, teacher and artist Jon Homewood ended up coming to Japan in 2012 for a professional opportunity.
Yokozuna duo Onosato and Hoshoryu poised for another clash of titans
Yokozuna duo Onosato (right) and Hoshoryu clash for the title on the final day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Sept. 28 at Ryogoku Kokugikan.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.
A 40-year wait for ‘Mishima’ ends at TIFF
Made at a time when Japan was still grappling with Yukio Mishima’s legacy, Paul Schrader’s biopic “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” was blocked from screening in the country for decades.
Takaichi’s balancing act: Supporting Taiwan and stabilizing China ties
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shakes hands with Lin Hsin-i, Taiwan’s presidential adviser, on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Saturday in this image posted to Takaichi's official X account.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
By Alex K.T. Martin

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