Dhaka, July 24 -- Donald Trump has announced a trade deal with Japan, potentially resolving weeks of fraught negotiations between the two allies which had caused economic uncertainty in Tokyo and mounting speculation over the future of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.
"We just completed a massive Deal with Japan," the US president announced in a post online, adding "Japan will invest, at my direction, $550 Billion Dollars into the United States."Ishiba said his country's tariff negotiator had received the details of the deal and he would examine them before responding. "Our overarching concern is the interests of the nation," he said.
US president Trump meets with Japan's Economic Revitalisation Minister Ryosei Akazawa at the White House in...