Japan was isolated from the outside world due to years of internal conflict and fear of colonization by European powers. When ...

The upcoming visit of Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus to Japan later this month carries great symbolic and strategic ...

The U.S. trade deficit in goods surged 10% in March to a record high of $162 billion, the government said Tuesday. Back To Top ...

The United States and China made “substantial progress” in trade talks over the weekend, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday, after representatives from the two countries met amid an ...

But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of stability, the need for them faded, forcing these warriors to find a new way of life. HISTORY & CULTURE The samurai were a preeminent class ...

Kim Hyun-chong spoke with officials at the White House in what is being called an unprecedented meeting between a key adviser for a specific candidate and US authorities weeks out from the election ...

President Trump announced his first deal on Thursday since launching a global trade war. He unveiled a limited pact with the United Kingdom that would lower barriers on some goods, such as ...

President Trump confirmed early Thursday his plans to announce a “major trade deal” with the United Kingdom — the first such agreement since his latest tariff rollout left global markets ...

a show of gunboat diplomacy meant to threaten the Tokugawa shogunate with mass destruction if it did not open trade relations with the U.S. and change its policy of self-imposed national isolation ...

Chinese trade negotiators will sit down with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in Switzerland this weekend for the first high-level talks aimed at ...

Things were quite different in 16th-century Japan, where the Tokugawa shogunate put a stop to what had, until then, been a rather successful if slow process of evangelizing previously ...

Toshogu Shrine, the resting place of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, is the most popular attraction in this city. Nikko also has a national park that offers waterfalls, lakes, ...