No TPP Trade Deal? Some Japanese Farmers Say All the Better for Them
Rice farmer Takao Terada isn’t following the U.S. presidential election too closely. But there’s one issue that both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton seem to agree on — that the U.S. should not ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact — and that’s music to his ears.
Postcard from a Japanese Steel Town
JCIE Journalism Fellow Adrian Ma, a reporter based in the American Midwest, explores Japan’s oldest steel town, Kamaishi.
Japan Trade Officials and Companies Take a Nuanced Approach to US Tariffs
Adrian Ma explores the impact of the Trump administration’s 25 percent tariff on imported steel on Japan. How are Japanese companies and trade officials feeling about the president’s efforts to turn the economic screws? The answer varies a lot depending on whether you’re talking about steel production or auto manufacturing.
China-Japan-US Research and Dialogue Project | Yokohama Conference
As part of the China-Japan-US Research and Dialogue Project, a fifth workshop was held in Yokohama on October 12–13, 2000. The meeting, which brought an end to the first five-year phase of the project, gathered senior project members and the successor generation study groups. Other leading intellectual figures from the three countries were also invited […]
