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As President Donald Trump’s tariffs add to a sense of uncertainty in Japan, the Sanseito party and its leader Sohei Kamiya made gains on a “Japanese first” platform.

President Donald Trump says that Japan has given him $550 billion to invest in the United States. It’s an astonishing figure, but still subject to negotiation and perhaps not the sure thing

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.

Japan said Saturday that the country’s newly announced $550B investment package could be used to help finance semiconductor plants in the US.

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.

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.