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Japan recorded a trade deficit of 2.76 trillion yen ($18 billion) in January, the Finance Ministry reported Wednesday, as worries continue to grow about looming tariffs from the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. Japan also had a trade deficit, which measures the value of exports minus imports, a year ago, but the amount rose 60% last month from January 2024. Consumption in Japan is expected to remain relatively solid, partly because of recent wage growth.
Yoshiko Abe is about to turn 89, but that hasn't stopped her from going to the gym every day and trying the free-of-charge makeup course at her housing complex. Japan is the fastest-aging society in the world, where more than a quarter of its population is 65 and older, at 36 million people. No wonder the young-at-heart, like Abe, is a growing target for Japan Inc. The market for older people is estimated to grow to more than 100 trillion yen ($650 billion) in size this year, according to a study by Mizuho Bank.
Brazil's far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro has been bogged down in legal woes since leaving office, and is now facing a possible high-profile trial while trying to pave a path back to power.Investigations also showed a plot to assassinate Lula, vice-president Geraldo Alckmin and a high-profile judge with "the approval of" Bolsonaro.
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to nominate Aaron Lukas, a career government official, as deputy to newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, a source familiar with the plan said. Gabbard, a former U.S. representative with little intelligence experience, was confirmed as the top U.S. spy last week in a 52 to 48 vote, mostly along party lines. Lukas, who worked as an intelligence aide to then acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell in 2020 during Trump's first term, would bring years of national security experience to the post of principal deputy director of national intelligence, a role that requires Senate confirmation.
A Japanese court on Wednesday convicted a man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at Japan's former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a 2023 campaign event, sentencing him to 10 years in prison, according to local media reports. Ryuji Kimura, 25, was charged with attempted murder for the April 15, 2023 attack on Kishida at a small fishing port in the western city of Wakayama, as well as four other charges including violations of laws on explosives and other weapons.
Vietnam's parliament on Wednesday approved plans for an $8 billion rail link from its largest northern port city to the border with China, boosting links between the two communist-ruled countries and making trade easier.It comes just three months after Vietnam approved plans for a $67 billion high-speed railway from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, another much-needed boost to infrastructure that is expected to drive growth.
Asian markets were mixed Wednesday after President Donald Trump broadened his tariff threats, while traders were also assessing the geopolitical outlook after the first high-level official US-Russia talks since the invasion of Ukraine.Traders are keeping tabs on talks between Washington and Moscow after their top diplomats met in Saudi Arabia.
Rescues were ongoing Monday as water levels continued to rise on some waterways in Kentucky and other portions of the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic flooded by a deadly coast-to-coast winter storm.
It looked like things couldn’t get any darker for Ukraine. Then President Donald Trump spoke up.
Beachgoers in Mexico were treated to a rare sighting earlier of a shimmering oarfish, native to the deep sea and known as a 'doomsday' fish.
A federal judge declined on Tuesday to temporarily block Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency from accessing federal data systems at a slew of executive branch agencies.
Eleven women filed civil lawsuits Tuesday against luxury real estate stars Oren and Tal Alexander and their brother, Alon, alleging the men sexually assaulted them in New York, Miami and Moscow.
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been charged in connection with an alleged coup plot to overturn the results of the 2022 election and keep his opponent from taking power, according to documents filed by prosecutors Tuesday evening.
Scientists say they’ve found the ideal way to cook boiled eggs to maximize consistency, taste and nutrients of the egg white and yolk. You can even test it at home.
China invested 6.8 trillion yuan ($940 billion) in clean energy in 2024, approaching the $1.12 trillion in global investment in fossil fuels, according to a new analysis for U.K.-based research organisation Carbon Brief. That was despite growth in China's clean energy investments slowing to 7% from 40% in 2023 amid overcapacity. More than half of that investment came from China's burgeoning electric vehicle, battery and solar industries.
A woman is suing a fertility clinic after the wrong embryo was implanted in her, resulting in a shocking discovery once the infant was born, a lawsuit says.
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's Resonac Holdings is looking to make deals after reducing its borrowing and wants to be involved when a state-backed fund exits from peer JSR, the CEO of the chips materials maker said on Wednesday. "We will go on the offensive from this year," Hidehito Takahashi told Reuters in an interview. Resonac was formed by Showa Denko's acquisition of the larger Hitachi Chemical and has been selling assets with a partial spin-off of its petrochemical business planned.
A Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis crashed, turned upside down and caught fire on the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport while attempting to land Monday, the latest in a string of passenger plane crashes since December.
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