For months Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and his government have been carefully preparing Japanese public opinion for the first defense budget that would breach the previously sacrosanct ceiling of 1% of gross national product.
It seems the United States is becoming a financial colony of Japan.
Japan's overall trade surplus swelled to a record $8.92 billion in September, one year after the yen began rising in a strategy designed to trim the nation's trade imbalance, the Finance Ministry said today.
A strong earthquake that originated in the Pacific Ocean shook northern Japan early Monday, but
Fellow Americans! Let's not be such crybabies! Stop blaming the Japanese for our trade deficits.
Conrad's cartoon (March 31) depicting Japan's one-way trade was captioned, "Hirohito's Revenge."
It is a pity that the U.S. government must now bring pressure on Japan to buy more of our products.
Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi will visit Japan later this month for talks with his Japanese
It's probably not exactly what Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone had in mind late last year when he urged Japanese industries and consumers to buy American products to right a deepening trade imbalance and forestall protectionist retaliation.
Perhaps the indication of the ineptness and pure wimpiness of the Reagan Administration is the recent "trade retaliation" against the Japanese. $300 million against the $56-billion unfair trade rewards is not a slap on the wrist, it is a drop of water and the Japanese continue to laugh on their...
Bob Samuelson's article "Time Out in the Chip War," (Editorial Pages, April 8) was quite interesting.
Ernest Conine's article "A Shot Across Japan's Bow," (Editorial Pages, April 6) about the U.S. retaliation against Japan misses some fundamental points.
Japan said its trade surplus with the United States jumped to $5.15 billion in April, a record in
Japanese employment remained stable in the 1985 fiscal year, with the jobless rate averaging 2.6%, down 0.1% from 1984, the government reported Thursday.
Japan's trade surplus expanded again in May to a new monthly record, a government report said today.
While visiting Japan last year I did see two American-made automobiles, and that's one of the big points about our trade with Japan.
I find the hysterical tone of letters in The Times (April 7) regarding the U.S.
Japan claims not only the world's oldest living person but more than 1,700 centenarians as well.
Japan offered $200,000 in emergency aid to Vietnam on Tuesday to help victims of Typhoon Cecil, Japanese officials said.
in Japan, but all 23 crew members were rescued by helicopter.