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During the 19th century, Italy and Japan experienced similar historical periods, characterised by huge changes in their political and social structure. [8] Italy achieved national unity in 1861 during the period known as the Risorgimento, while Japan saw the end of the Bakufu system and the beginning in 1868 of a process of profound modernization along Western lines that came to be known as ...
The surplus reached a record US$18.2 billion in 1978, promoting considerable tension between the United States and Japan. In 1979 petroleum prices jumped again, and Japan's trade balance again turned to deficit, reaching US$10.7 billion in 1980. Once again, rapid export growth and stagnant imports returned Japan quickly to surplus by 1981. For ...
The leaders of Japan and Italy said Monday they will bolster their cooperation in security and defense, including their joint next-generation fighter jet development with Britain, as Tokyo ...
The Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Japan and the United States (日米修好通商条約, Nichibei Shūkō Tsūshō Jōyaku), also called the Harris Treaty was a treaty signed between the United States and Tokugawa Shogunate, which opened the ports of Kanagawa and four other Japanese cities to trade and granted extraterritoriality to ...
(Reuters) -Japan's Trade Minister Yoji Muto plans to visit the U.S. in March and will seek exemptions from Trump administration plans to set import tariffs on steel and cars, the Asahi newspaper ...
Tokugawa Ieyasu, who conquered Japan in 1600, was skeptical of the Spanish and Portuguese, due in part to the influence of his English advisor William Adams. After the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1603, Japan began trading with the Dutch East India Company and English East India Company through factories at Hirado in present-day ...
The realignment of United States and Japanese currencies in the mid-1980s increased the growth of Japanese trade, aid, and investment, especially in Asia. It also accelerated the reversal of the United States fiscal position, from one of the world's largest creditors in the early 1980s to the world's largest debtor at the end of the decade.
South Korea, China, and other countries in the Western Pacific trade on a very large scale with Japan. After the United States, China and Japan have the two largest economies in the 21st century world. In 2008, China-Japan trade reached $266 billion, making them the top trading partners.