One of America’s closest allies recently raised eyebrows for threatening to fire the ultimate financial weapon against Washington in trade talks: Dumping US debt.

Japan has no plans to threaten to sell its $1 trillion-plus holdings of U.S. Treasuries in trade talks with Washington, its ...

Japan walks a diplomatic tightrope amid China-US trade war over Trump’s tariffs. Tokyo strengthens trade ties with Washington ...

No country holds more provable Treasury debt than Japan with roughly $1.1 trillion, equivalent to a quarter of its entire ...

Japan and China have accused each other of violating the airspace around the Japanese-controlled East China Sea islands, ...

President Trump’s new import taxes are based not on specific goods like cars or steel, but on how he thinks other countries ...

Japan's huge $1 trillion-plus in U.S. Treasury holdings are among the tools available for Tokyo to use in trade negotiations ...

Japan could use its $1 trillion-plus holdings of U.S. Treasuries as a card in trade talks with Washington, its finance ...

Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said Sunday that Japan is not thinking of using its holdings of U.S. Treasurys as a ...

President Donald Trump, the dealmaker-in-chief, has said for weeks that at least one trade deal is imminent with one of the dozens of countries in active negotiations with the United States to avoid ...

The U.S. agriculture secretary indicated the possibility of asking for market-opening measures for agricultural products.

Another day, another piece of evidence that President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with friends and foes is hurting the global economy. Today: Japan’s central bank cut its economic growth ...