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EDITORIALS
Jan 13, 2017
The incoming U.S. president
With his inauguration just days away, Donald Trump still hasn't offered a coherent policy on pretty much anything.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 12, 2017
After Trump remark, Suga calls Japanese firms in U.S. 'good corporate citizens'
Accumulated direct investment by Japanese firms has totaled $411 billion, and about 840,000 people have been employed, the top government spokesman said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 11, 2017
What Alibaba's Jack Ma can teach Xi Jinping
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump isn't an emperor, or Jack Ma a lowly tributary. But in paying tribute to the incoming leader of the reigning superpower, Ma hopes to avoid the wrath of Trump Nation.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 10, 2017
China's free ride set to end once Trump is president
After relishing the Obama administration's unremitting obsequiousness toward it, Beijing must now brace up and face an assertive new U.S. team that is unlikely to put up with its covert territorial expansion and trade manipulation.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 9, 2017
Chinese state tabloid warns Trump, end 'one-China' policy and China will 'take revenge'
State-run Chinese tabloid Global Times warned U.S. President-elect Donald Trump that Beijing would "take revenge" if he reneged on the "one-China" policy, only hours after Taiwan's president made a controversial stopover in Houston.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 6, 2017
Charcoal becomes first Cuban export to United States in half a century
Cuba announced a landmark deal on Thursday to sell charcoal to a U.S. company, the first legal Cuban export to the United States in five decades, as part of the fragile rapprochement between the former Cold War foes.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 5, 2017
How Donald Trump can make Asia great again
U.S President-elect Donald Trump's desire to shake up the status quo could prod Asia's economies to lift their game.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 4, 2017
Economists see growth on horizon for 2017
Economists say growth is expected on the back of the weak yen and due to government steps to stimulate sluggish consumption.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 2, 2017
Protectionism will make America 1953 again
A revival of protectionism will hurt America more than it will help it.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 30, 2016
Five big political risks for the incoming year
A Trump White House, leadership intrigue in China and Australia, Islam unnerving Indonesia, and Kim Jong-un's tantrums threaten stability in Asia.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 30, 2016
Trump may hand China economic leadership
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to make America great again. But his economic policies are likely to have the opposite effect
BUSINESS
Dec 18, 2016
U.K., looking beyond Europe, to hold regular trade talks with South Korea
The U.K. and South Korea are set to begin regular trade talks, with luxury brands a particularly promising topic, as Britain prepares to expand its commercial reach once it has left the European Union.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 15, 2016
Trump's top diplomat would carry Chinese baggage from Exxon days
President-elect Donald Trump's pick for top U.S. diplomat comes with Chinese geopolitical entanglements. In his favor is years of dealing with some of the country's biggest oil companies.
EDITORIALS
Dec 14, 2016
Japan's ratification of the TPP
If the Abe administration believes in the TPP as a key to drive up Japan's growth, it should prepare to restructure its strategy on how to push the nation's free trade agenda in case the deal is formally declared dead.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Dec 10, 2016
Trump packing trade team with veterans of steel wars with China
President-elect Donald Trump is stacking his trade transition team with veterans of the U.S. steel industry's battles with China, signaling a potentially more aggressive approach to U.S. complaints of unfair Chinese subsidies for its exports and barriers to imports.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 9, 2016
Pressure U.S. on free trade
The biggest loser in the U.S. presidential election was free trade.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 5, 2016
Trump's dangerous economic nationalism
If Donald Trump fulfills his economic nationalistic pledges, he will redefine America's global role in a fundamentally deceptive and destructive way.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 1, 2016
Trump's Treasury pick targets taxes, trade reforms
President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the U.S. Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, said on Wednesday the administration would make tax reform and trade pact overhauls top priorities in order to achieve a sustained pace of 3 percent to 4 percent economic growth.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 1, 2016
China wisely taking a neutral stance for now
China isn't jumping to conclusions about future U.S. policies, much less taking premature action.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 30, 2016
Trump confronting China on trade sets up backlash
If U.S. President-elect Donald Trump delivers on campaign pledges to get tough with China on trade, lining up against him likely will be another powerful adversary: American multinational corporations.

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