Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed optimism on Sunday that his country could avoid higher U.S. tariffs, saying President Donald Trump had recognized Japan's huge investment in the U ...

"Ishiba respects Trump's America First" policy, but he is also a "Japan first" prime minister, said Yuki Tatsumi, director of the Japan Program at the Stimson Center. She told VOA on Friday that ...

Japan could soon face U.S. tariffs if it doesn’t take steps to buy more from the United States, President Donald Trump said Friday after a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ...

If Japan needed reassurances it was indeed still ... "On television, he is very frightening," Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba told reporters after Friday's meeting. "But when I met him ...

Fumio Kishida was elected as Japan’s newest prime minister by both the Lower and Upper houses of the Diet on Oct. 4. He is the 35th prime minister in the postwar period. At around 1:25 p.m ...

He became the third prime minister in Japan’s history to reach the age of 100. The other two are Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, who died in 1990 at the age of 102, and Yasuhiro Nakasone, who died ...

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed optimism on Sunday that his country could avoid higher U.S. tariffs, saying President Donald Trump had recognized Japan's huge investment in ...

"On television, he is very frightening," Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba told reporters after Friday's meeting. "But when I met him, he was very sincere, very powerful and strong willed," he ...

Before Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba traveled to Washington ... in protecting Japanese interests while still advancing the U.S.-Japan alliance. In the end, he did fine. There were no missteps ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba succeeded in demonstrating that Japan and the United States’ unity is unwavering over security and economic issues during his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.