President Donald Trump is bragging that Japan has given him, as part of a new trade framework, $550 billion to invest in the United States.

President Donald Trump announced a new trade framework with Japan, boasting a staggering USD 550 billion investment in the US. However, details remain under negotiation, and it's uncertain if this represents new or existing investments.

First, are tariffs higher? It’s been hard to follow the many impositions, cancellations, negotiations and pauses in tariff policy. But one way to measure tariffs is “customs duties,” which is the revenue the government collects from tariffs on imported goods.

The right-wing populist party Sanseito made big strides in parliamentary elections in Japan, capitalizing on concerns about the economy, immigration and overtourism.

He’s a wheeler-dealer, our president, needless to say, and he’s kind of cutting these deals — but he has scared these people, and he’s leveraged American bargaining

US stocks are floating near all-time highs as Wall Street maintains cautious optimism that Washington might ink more trade deals, avoiding a worst-case scenario of extraordinarily high tariffs and enabling the resilient economy to continue chugging along.

On any list of central bankers dying to get off this crazy thing called 2025, Japan’s Kazuo Ueda deserves a spot at the very top.

Japan's Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has told leaders of the ruling and opposition parties that the country's tariff deal with the United States was reached in a way that meets the national interests of both sides.