The new U.S.-Japan trade deal lowers tariffs and strengthens economic ties, helping challenge China's regional aggression and instability.

"The trade deal struck with the U.S. is certainly a relief in that it offers some certainty that U.S. tariffs on Japan-made cars won't rise to punitive levels," said Stefan Angrick, head of Japan and Frontier market economics at Moody's Analytics.

Asia has designs on the blossoming Dallas-Fort Worth economy, with Japan positioning itself to be the tip of the spear.

The U.S. found out this year that China could use its chokehold on rare-earth minerals as a coercive tool. For Japan, it was déjà vu: It had been the victim 15 years earlier.

"They are the party of YouTube," said Jeffrey Hall, a lecturer at Kanda University of International Studies who has authored a book on right-wing politics in Japan.

Ichiro Suzuki, a remarkable hitter with dazzling speed and arm strength, not only broke stereotypes during a career played across two continents but also blazed a trail for a generation of Japanese-born players in Major League Baseball.

Japan Society in New York is staging the first-ever U.S. exhibition looking at the kinetic sculptures and other life-engineered works of Osaka-born artist Susumu Shingu.

The South Side based firm expects to have a treatment for a rare genetic condition that causes skin blisters on the market in Japan by the end of the year.

As part of a trade deal reached this week, Japan agreed to invest $550 billion in projects across strategic U.S. industries, including energy, semiconductor manufacturing and shipbuilding. The White House said Trump would have final say over where the money goes and that the U.S. would keep 90% of profits on any investments.

Japan’s chief trade negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, stated on Saturday that the $550 billion investment package recently announced in Japan under a tariff deal with the United States could be utilised to help finance semiconductor plants in the US built by Taiwanese companies.