Tag: Japan

President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe smile during their meeting at Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club, Tuesday, April 17, 2018, in Palm Beach, Fla.

Trump slams TPP: Bilateral deals are better for American workers

Diana Stancy Correll · April 18, 2018 3:37 am

President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands during a meeting at Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla.

National Security

Japan PM Abe praises Trump’s ‘courage’ for meeting Kim Jong Un

Steven Nelson · April 17, 2018 7:45 pm

Japan: Land of the Rising Wages

Ethan Epstein · April 17, 2018 5:49 pm

President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a joint news conference at the Akasaka Palace in Tokyo. Trump is on a five-country trip through Asia traveling to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines.

White House: Japan open to US rejoining TPP

Gabby Morrongiello · April 17, 2018 4:45 pm

DAY 4 - In this Jan. 23, 2017, file photo, Vice President Mike Pence, left, and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, right, watch as President Donald Trump shows off an executive order to withdraw the U.S. from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact agreed to under the Obama administration in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

America would win by rejoining the TPP

Tom Rogan · April 13, 2018 9:00 am

Trump, Japanese Prime Minister Abe to talk North Korea, trade at Mar-a-Lago this month

Katelyn Caralle · April 2, 2018 8:48 am

National Security

White House: Kim Jong Un’s trip to Beijing shows ‘maximum pressure’ campaign is working

Diana Stancy Correll · March 28, 2018 1:10 am

In this Feb. 7, 2018, photo, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrives for the daily news briefing at the White House in Washington. The United States is urging allied nations to help deal with the growing number of foreign fighters that are being held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, saying the militants should be turned over to face justice in their home countries. Mattis is expected to raise the issue during a meeting in Rome this week with other members of the coalition that is fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.

Jim Mattis: ‘Methodical’ preparations for talks with North Korea ‘on track’

Jamie McIntyre · March 27, 2018 4:21 pm

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Obama envisions creating ‘a million young Barack Obamas’ during speech in Japan

Daniel Chaitin · March 25, 2018 12:01 pm

FILE - This May 11, 2015, file photo, shows land reclamation of Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. An international tribunal has found that there is no legal basis for China's claiming rights to much of the South China Sea. The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) issued its ruling Tuesday, July 12, 2016, in The Hague in response to an arbitration case brought by the Philippines against China regarding the South China Sea, saying that any historic rights to resources that China may have had were wiped out if they are incompatible with exclusive economic zones established under a U.N. treaty.

Beltway Confidential

The craziness of China’s island claims

Tom Rogan · March 23, 2018 7:28 pm

A House Democrat argued Monday that by firing former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the government was sending a warning to other federal workers who might be investigating President Trump.

White House: Trump was joking about Japan’s ‘bowling ball test’

Pete Kasperowicz · March 15, 2018 7:38 pm

More than half a decade after a tsunami overwhelmed the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan has yet to reach consensus on what to do with 1 million tons of radioactive water. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, Pool, File)

Energy and Environment

US hardens nation’s power plants seven years after Fukushima nuclear disaster

John Siciliano · March 11, 2018 4:01 am