Nippon Steel Corp. must break through a formidable wall in acquiring U.S. Steel Corp., including opposition to the deal from a major labor union and the current and a former U.S. president.
ELMAU, Germany Japan and the United States have agreed to cooperate on setting an upper limit on the price of Russian oil imports to squeeze revenues funding the war against Ukraine.
Japan played a vital role in the launch of an economic bloc that was proposed by the United States and joined by Asia-Pacific countries as an alternative to a new China-led trade pact in the region.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Cabinet on Dec. 24 approved an initial budget for fiscal 2022 worth 107.596 trillion yen ($940 billion), the 10th straight year for record-setting expenditures.