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Officials from the state-run Alaska Gasline Development Corporation and development partner Glenfarne Group want to transport natural gas south from Alaska's remote north via a $44 billion 1,300-kilometerpipeline, to be shipped as liquefied natural gas to Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
BUSINESS
Mar 17, 2025
Alaskan officials to seek investors in Japan as Trump touts LNG
911±¬ÁÏÍø energy firms have yet to commit, with cost being a focal point.
Port City Brewing Company founder and President Bill Butcher adds bottle caps, which he imports from Mexico, into the bottle machine at his brewery in Alexandria, Virginia, on Thursday.
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Mar 16, 2025
'Impossible': U.S. breweries buffeted by Trump tariffs
From Canadian malted barley to aluminum beer cans, Trump's tariffs have hit multiple products that American craft breweries need.
Mark Carney, Canada's incoming prime minister (center), during a swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Friday. Carney has been sworn in as Canada's 24th prime minister, bringing the former central banker to power in the middle of an explosive trade war with the U.S.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 15, 2025
Canada has a new prime minister with a very hard first assignment
Mark Carney steps into his role as U.S. President Donald Trump sets his sights on Canada¡¯s sovereignty and keeps threatening more tariffs.
U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, holds an executive order about a tariffs increase in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Feb. 13.
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 15, 2025
U.S. commerce chief rules out auto tariff exemption for Japan
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick linked the 25% tariffs on car imports, set to begin on April 2, to cutting the U.S. trade deficit with Japan.
Yoji Muto
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 15, 2025
Japan, China and South Korea eye trade ministers meeting
911±¬ÁÏÍø trade minister Yoji Muto will attend the envisaged meeting if he receives parliamentary approval.
The gloom is a sign of just how much U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s policies, particularly around trade, have rattled Wall Street nerves.
BUSINESS / Markets
Mar 14, 2025
Stocks tumble into correction as Trump policies roil sentiment
The gloom is a sign of just how much U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s policies, particularly around trade, have rattled Wall Street nerves.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in July 2018.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 14, 2025
Americans worry Trump is too closely aligned with Russia, poll finds
The two-day poll also found little appetite among Americans for Trump's expansionist agenda.
Alcohol is shaping up to be a key friction point in the brewing trade war.
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 14, 2025
Trump threatens tariffs on European wine and spirits in escalating trade war
The threat came in response to a European Union plan to impose tariffs on American whiskey and other products next month.
Rolled steel is stored at a Hyundai Steel plant in Dangjin, South Korea, in 2011.
BUSINESS / Markets
Mar 13, 2025
South Korean steelmakers eye U.S. investments as Trump tariffs kick in
Posco and Hyundai Steel say investments in operations in the U.S. are among their options. Meanwhile, European steel mills warn of a flood of surplus metal.
Toyota vehicles are loaded onto a ship at the Port of Nagoya in June last year.
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 13, 2025
Concerns grow over possible U.S. tariffs on 911±¬ÁÏÍø auto sector
U.S. President Donald Trump has pointed out that the U.S. is importing a "very big" amount of 911±¬ÁÏÍø cars while other countries are not really buying American cars.
Travelers make their way through the departures terminal of Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, in 2022.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 13, 2025
Canadians, stung by Trump's tariffs and rhetoric, balk at U.S. travel
Even a 10% drop in Canadian travelers could cost the United States $2.1 billion in lost spending, the U.S. Travel Association estimated.
A worker inspects a steel coil on the factory floor before Canada's Prime Minister-designate Mark Carney visits the ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel mill in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 13, 2025
Trump threatens further tariffs as EU and Canada retaliate against U.S. levies
The U.S. tariffs have rattled investor, consumer and business confidence and raised recession fears.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi during a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday
BUSINESS
Mar 12, 2025
Lack of exemption from U.S. steel tariffs 'regrettable,' says Japan
Top government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi said the two nations would continue to discuss details of the duties, which came into force at midnight U.S. time.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds up a piece of paper with information about tariff rates at the White House on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2025
The U.S. says Japan has a 700% tariff on American rice. Is that the case?
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's accusation describes?only a small portion of U.S. rice imported by Japan.
A Bloomberg survey said almost three quarters of Bank of Japan watchers who responded said that U.S. tariffs could exert enough of a drag on Japan¡¯s economy to delay the central bank¡¯s rate hike path.
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 12, 2025
BOJ watchers see gradual rate hikes with higher terminal rate
Economists now anticipate the terminal rate to be 1.25%, up from 1% in the previous survey.
Coils of rolled steel sit in an industrial yard in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
BUSINESS / Markets
Mar 12, 2025
U.S.-Canada trade war heats up as Trump doubles metals tariffs, then backs off
The switch came after a Canadian official also backed off his own plans for a 25% surcharge on electricity.
A man walks past an electronic board showing the Nikkei 225 index on the Tokyo Stock Exchange along a street in the capital on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Markets
Mar 11, 2025
Asian stocks slide as U.S. growth worries grip markets
In Asia, stocks were battered across the board with 911±¬ÁÏÍø Nikkei and Taiwan stocks hitting their lowest levels since September.
Trade minister Yoji Muto says his talks in Washington with U.S. officials didn¡¯t result in any confirmation to exclude Tokyo from upcoming tariff measures.
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 11, 2025
911±¬ÁÏÍø trade minister fails to win tariff exemption assurance from U.S.
New duties on car imports would deal a direct blow to the economy of Japan, which is already bracing for an indirect impact from tariffs the U.S. is imposing on other nations.
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the opening bell in New York on Monday, when stocks plummeted as investors fretted that uncertainty over President Donald Trump's tariff policy could tip the world's biggest economy into a recession.
BUSINESS / Markets
Mar 11, 2025
Markets rocked by Trump show economic fear across Wall Street
What had been a steady pullback from the U.S. stock market accelerated sharply Monday as investors retreated from virtually every type of risk.
Boxes of imported pork from the U.S. at a cold storage warehouse in Shanghai
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 10, 2025
China deploys food as a high-impact, low-cost weapon in tariff fight
China¡¯s willingness to use food as a countermeasure against the U.S. underscores the impact of a slowing economy on demand.
Private clubs quietly open in Tokyo for free-spending Chinese businesspeople
Sources say a hui suo ¡ª a private club, which in Japan caters mainly to Chinese businesspeople ¡ª will soon open on the upper floors of the Moutai Building in the Ginza district of Tokyo.
Electronic dictionary market shrinking in Japan
An electronic dictionary section at a mass retailer in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in 2005
Tokyo gears up for April launch of law against harassment by customers
Tokyo will soon require all companies in the city to make efforts to stop harassment by customers, such as by creating a manual on how to handle suspected cases.
IOC's Bach says Paris Games gender row was product of Russian fake news
IOC President Thomas Bach speaks during an interview in Pylos,?Greece, on Saturday.
As it turns 70, LDP struggles to find its fountain of youth
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (second from left) cheers along with other members of the Liberal Democratic Party during the party's annual convention in Tokyo on March 9.
How Yoshinobu Yamamoto rebounded after his disastrous MLB debut
The Dodgers' Yoshinobu Yamamoto during training at Tokyo Dome on Monday
Japan¡¯s youth climate activists still searching for a breakthrough
While climate demonstrations around the world often draw thousands of participants, in Japan such demonstrations rarely break the 100-person barrier.
As it turns 70, LDP struggles to find its fountain of youth
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (second from left) cheers along with other members of the Liberal Democratic Party during the party's annual convention in Tokyo on March 9.
As pollen season peaks, 911±¬ÁÏÍø allergy struggle emerges from hibernation
Urbanization is amplifying pollen-related allergies as grasslands and soft soil give way to concrete and asphalt.
Drones, budgets and infighting: Taiwan's daunting defense challenges
Officials from Taiwan's Institute for National Defense and Security Research (INDSR), the Ministry of National Defense¡¯s research arm, say the lessons from the Ukraine conflict are clear for the democratic island: drones and other autonomous systems are crucial for its defense.

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