TOKYO -- The depreciation of Japan's currency over the past decade is denting foreign aid efforts, forcing the country to scale back projects and risking serious damage to international trust in Tokyo ...

Then-Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi inspects an apple orchard in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, part of a JICA Partnership Program, Aug. 26, 2025. Credit: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan At the ...

As the United States rethinks its role in the international order it has championed since the end of World War II, Japan is on the frontlines of the challenge to rules-based commerce and diplomacy.

Japan’s Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru (second from right) chairs a meeting of the “Comprehensive Response Headquarters for U.S. Tariff Measures,” July 7, 2025. Also pictured are Foreign Minister Iwaya ...

One lawsuit, underway since February, has sought to compel President Trump to honor Congress’s vision for foreign aid. It still has a long way to go. Furniture, files and equipment at a medical site ...

A bipartisan bill allocates $50 billion for foreign aid spending in 2026, down from what was allocated in 2024 but billions more than what the Trump administration had signaled it would approve. After ...