Mari Yamaguchi
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Arts & EntertainmentJapan’s Prime Minister welcomes Deep Purple, capping 50-year love affair with heavy metal: ‘You’re my god’
By Mari Yamaguchi and The Associated PressApril 10, 2026
By Mari Yamaguchi and The Associated PressFebruary 19, 2026
PoliticsJapanese prime minister’s landslide win gives her party a lower-house supermajority and more room to enact a right-wing agenda
By Mari Yamaguchi, Foster Klug and The Associated PressFebruary 8, 2026
By The Associated Press and Mari YamaguchiOctober 28, 2025
EconomyThe Trump administration flubbed a detail on its Japan trade deal so it apologized and agreed to refund overcharged tariffs
By Mari Yamaguchi and The Associated PressSeptember 5, 2025
GlobalAging Japan is tripling its investments to $6.8 billion a year in a bid to get India’s younger workers
By Mari Yamaguchi and The Associated PressAugust 29, 2025
By Mari Yamaguchi, Ayaka McGill and The Associated PressAugust 20, 2025
PoliticsJapan hesitates between old rival China and old friend America as Trump tariffs upend alliances
By Mari Yamaguchi, Didi Tang and The Associated PressMay 6, 2025
PoliticsAmerica’s new ambassador to Japan says he’s optimistic they can reach a deal over tariffs so both countries can ‘push back against a country like China’
By Mari Yamaguchi and The Associated PressApril 18, 2025
PoliticsJapan’s chief trade negotiator will visit Washington to deal with Trump tariffs prime minister calls ‘a national crisis’
By Mari Yamaguchi and The Associated PressApril 16, 2025
PoliticsBrazilian President Lula swipes at new 25% auto tariffs, saying Trump is president only of the U.S. not the world
By Mari Yamaguchi and The Associated PressMarch 27, 2025
PoliticsJapan’s trade minister says he tried but failed to win assurances that key U.S. ally would be exempt from 25% tariffs
By Mari Yamaguchi and The Associated PressMarch 11, 2025
LeadershipJapan says Russia’s new permanent ban of 13 people—mostly company leaders like Toyota chair Akio Toyoda—is an attack on Japanese business
By Mari Yamaguchi and The Associated PressJuly 24, 2024
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