Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Cambodia on Thursday for a two-day state visit that serves as an opportunity to further strengthen already robust relations. The visit, Xi’s first since 2016, will conclude a three-nation Southeast Asian tour that included stops in Vietnam and Malaysia. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet recently described Beijing as “an…
Asian shares mostly rose Thursday, despite the continued fretting over President Donald Trump’s trade war, with all eyes on negotiations that just began between the administration and Japan. Japan’s… © Japan Today
U.S. President Donald Trump said there was “big progress” when he made the surprise move on Wednesday to jump in on preliminary talks with a Japanese trade delegation in Washington about the barrage of tariffs he has imposed on global imports. Japan is one of the first countries to formally kick off negotiations, an early…
Japan recorded a trade deficit in its March-April fiscal year but racked up a surplus with the U.S., the Finance Ministry reported Thursday. Japan’s global trade deficit totaled 5.2 trillion yen for the fiscal year through March, for the fourth straight year of deficits, according to the provisional statistics. The surplus with the U.S. ballooned…
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has referred television personality Dewi Sukarno to public prosecutors on suspicion of assaulting a woman by throwing a glass at her during a dinner at a restaurant on Tokyo. According to police, the incident occurred at a restaurant in Shibuya Ward in mid-February. Sukarno, 85, who is referred to as…
