Japan's three largest banking groups posted record annual net profit in the last financial year, benefitting from increased corporate activity due to the end of deflation in Japan.

Japan's top trade negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, could travel to Washington as soon as next week for a third round of trade talks with the U.S., two sources with knowledge of the plans told Reuters on Thursday.

The third round of high-level tariff negotiations between Japan and the United States might convene next week, according to a news report. Ryosei Akazawa, Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, is making arrangements to visit Washington as early as next Thursday for talks with his U.S. counterparts, TV Asahi reported Wednesday.

All three of Japan’s largest carmakers are struggling with tough market conditions in the world’s two largest economies. In the U.S., tariffs have roiled their global supply chains, and in China, they face competition from domestic car companies that sell next-generation electric vehicles at cutthroat prices.

Japans top trade negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, is expected to visit Washington as early as next week for a third round of U.S.-Japan trade negotiations, according to sources familiar with the matter. The visits

Holding longer-term Treasuries and importing Japanese cars manufactured in the US are among the possible bargaining chips for Tokyo in its talks with Washington over President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs,

Japan’s finance minister says the nation’s massive holdings of U.S. Treasurys can be “a card on the table” in negotiations over tariffs with the Trump administration.

TOKYO] Japan’s biggest carmakers are looking at a hit of more than US$19 billion from US President Donald Trump’s tariffs that have left the global auto industry reeling. Read more at The Business Times.

Japan's service-sector sentiment worsened in April on concern over the impact of higher U.S. tariffs, a government survey showed on Monday, a sign uncertainty over trade talks with Washington was beginning to take a toll on the fragile economy.

The head of the global trade watchdog says global free trade is facing a “crisis” as U.S. President Donald Trump disrupts world commerce with his fast-changing tariffs and other policies