Japanese business leaders and officials were indignant at the U.S. decision to pause China tariffs, while Japan faces economic hardship from auto levies.

Japanese consumers embraced Korean rice for the first time in 35 years, finding it more familiar than other types of foreign rice.

Japan had long maintained deep economic ties with both China and the United States. Recent trade tensions may challenge that approach.

For his first face-to-face talks on tariffs, the president chose Japan, a U.S. ally that decades ago stirred his anger over the unequal balance of trade and his penchant for tariffs.

The artists, musicians and writers pushing past decades of historical erasure.