Japan's trade surplus expanded again in May to a new monthly record, a government report said today.
The Japan External Trade Organization, known as JETRO, has moved its Los Angeles office to 725 S.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
Japan said its trade surplus with the United States jumped to $5.15 billion in April, a record in
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.
Gold futures prices advanced strongly Friday on a report that Japan will need 200 metric tons of
Prime Minister Bettino Craxi will visit Japan in May in return for Japanese Prime Minister
Today's front page of The Times (March 28) brings back vividly the war that we won, that we eventually, ironically, are going to lose.
In reference to Conrad's cartoon: I am a World War II Navy veteran.
A moderate earthquake Sunday shook the Japanese island of Hachijo, in the Pacific about 185 miles south of Tokyo, but police said there were no reports of damage or injuries.