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Japan may need to get even more creative with its accounting if it's going to satisfy U.S. demands for it to beef up its defense spending. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/07/japan/politics/japan-defense-budget-us-demands/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #defense #usjapanrelations #budgets #defenseministry #shinjirokoizumi #us #donaldtrump #sdf

Japan may need to get even more creative with its accounting if it's going to satisfy U.S. demands for it to beef up its defense spending. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/07/japan/politics/japan-defense-budget-us-demands/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #defense #usjapanrelations #budgets #defenseministry #shinjirokoizumi #us #donaldtrump #sdf

Japan may need to get even more creative with its accounting if it's going to satisfy U.S. demands for it to beef up its defense spending. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/07/japan/politics/japan-defense-budget-us-demands/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #defense #usjapanrelations #budgets #defenseministry #shinjirokoizumi #us #donaldtrump #sdf

Japan may need to get even more creative with its accounting if it's going to satisfy U.S. demands for it to beef up its defense spending. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/07/japan/politics/japan-defense-budget-us-demands/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #defense #usjapanrelations #budgets #defenseministry #shinjirokoizumi #us #donaldtrump #sdf

Japan may need to get even more creative with its accounting if it's going to satisfy U.S. demands for it to beef up its defense spending. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/07/japan/politics/japan-defense-budget-us-demands/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #defense #usjapanrelations #budgets #defenseministry #shinjirokoizumi #us #donaldtrump #sdf

Trade minister Ryosei Akazawa said progress was being made on a $550 billion investment initiative set up as part of a trade deal with the U.S. last year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/09/05/japan-progress-us-investment-pact/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #us #usjapanrelations #trade #tariffs #ryoseiakazawa #ai #tech

Trade minister Ryosei Akazawa said progress was being made on a $550 billion investment initiative set up as part of a trade deal with the U.S. last year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/09/05/japan-progress-us-investment-pact/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #us #usjapanrelations #trade #tariffs #ryoseiakazawa #ai #tech

Trade minister Ryosei Akazawa said progress was being made on a $550 billion investment initiative set up as part of a trade deal with the U.S. last year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/09/05/japan-progress-us-investment-pact/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #us #usjapanrelations #trade #tariffs #ryoseiakazawa #ai #tech

Trade minister Ryosei Akazawa said progress was being made on a $550 billion investment initiative set up as part of a trade deal with the U.S. last year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/09/05/japan-progress-us-investment-pact/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #us #usjapanrelations #trade #tariffs #ryoseiakazawa #ai #tech

Trade minister Ryosei Akazawa said progress was being made on a $550 billion investment initiative set up as part of a trade deal with the U.S. last year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/09/05/japan-progress-us-investment-pact/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #us #usjapanrelations #trade #tariffs #ryoseiakazawa #ai #tech

Japan's first female prime minister has embraced Abe's foreign policy vision, but a more volatile Indo-Pacific will test whether continuity alone is enough. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/08/12/japan/takaichi-not-next-shinzo-abe/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #sanaetakaichi #shinzoabe #ldp #donaldtrump #us #taiwan #tpp #taiwan #apec #indopacific #usjapanrelations #uschinarelations

Trump's second administration has accelerated changes to the global order by weakening liberal norms and introducing greater geopolitical uncertainty, leaving Japan to pursue a more balanced foreign policy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/07/28/world/japan-trumps-new-world/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #donaldtrump #us #iran #uschinarelations #usjapanrelations #russia #nsa #xijinping #taiwan #nato #europe #indopacific #ukraine #coldwar #israel

Washington's shift from liberal‑values diplomacy toward a Christian‑nationalist framework is weakening the traditional basis of the U.S.-Japan alliance and turning religious freedom into a selective diplomatic tool. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/07/16/japan/us-japan-relations-next/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #us #coldwar #sovietunion #donaldtrump #christianity #china #usjapanrelations #dei #chinesecommunistparty #jinmingri #xijinping #xinjiang #tibet #falungong #shinzoabe

As the Year of the Wood Snake promised subtlety and adaptation, the U.S., China and Japan instead delivered strategic blundering, authoritarian overreach and geopolitical instability. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/26/world/good-riddance-year-of-the-serpent/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #china #chinesezodiac #2025 #2026 #yearofthewoodsnake #yearofthefirehorse #indopacific #us #donaldtrump #xijinping #ishibashigeru #sanaetakaichi #usjapanrelations #chinajapanrelations #uschinarelations

Before Japan can proceed with trade talks with Washington, authorities must first correct several misunderstandings held by U.S. President Donald Trump, former foreign minister Taro Kono said Wednesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/23/taro-kono-us-japan-trade-talks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tarokono #usjapanrelations #us #trade #tariffs

The Japan External Trade Organization will start full-scale support for exports of Japanese yellowtail to the United States, with China's blanket ban on Japanese fishery products still in place. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/02/09/economy/japan-yellowtail-exports-us/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #jetro #trade #fish #usjapanrelations #chinajapanrelations #fukushimano1 #radioactivewater #yellowtail

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives late Sunday in crisis-riven South Korea where he will seek delicately to encourage continuity with the policies, but not tactics, of the impeached president. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/05/asia-pacific/politics/south-korea-crisis-blinken/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #antonyblinken #us #joebiden #southkorea #southkoreajapanrelations #usjapanrelations #donaldtrump

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit South Korea for talks next week, with Seoul mired in political turmoil as its impeached president resists arrest. Blinken will also visit Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/04/asia-pacific/politics/blinken-us-south-korea-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #antonyblinken #southkorea #usjapanrelations #yoonsukyeol #nipponsteel #ussteel

One of the front-runners to become Japan's next prime minister has said that any U.S. move to block Japan's Nippon Steel from buying U.S. Steel on national security grounds would be "very unsettling" and could dent trust between the allies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/09/07/companies/nippon-steel-us-shigeru-ishiba/ #business #companies #usjapanrelations #nipponsteel #ussteel #joebiden #kamalaharris #donaldtrump #unitedsteelworkers #mergers #acquistions #tarokono #shigeruishiba #ldp