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Shipping containers are seen ready for transport at the Guangzhou Port in the Nansha district in southern China's Guangdong province, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Chinese factory activity improves slightly with delay on tariffs, but still lags

Monthly surveys of Chinese factory managers showed manufacturing improving somewhat in June after President Donald Trump delayed imposing higher tariffs, but overall activity was still contracting.

Seafood are displayed at a market in Beijing, Dec. 29, 2024, after China banned seafood imports from Japan in August 2023. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China lifts a nearly 2-year ban on seafood from Japan over Fukushima wastewater

An H-2A rocket carrying Global Observing SATellite for Greenhouse gases and Water cycle, or GOSAT-GW satellite, lifts off from a launch pad in Tanegashima Space Center in Tanegashima, southern Japan, early Sunday, June 29, 2025. (Takumi Sato/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan launches a climate change monitoring satellite on mainstay H2A rocket’s last flight

Giant panda Saihin, one among the four pandas on loan to Japan which will soon be heading back to China chews bamboo inside an enclosure at Adventure World in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, Friday, June 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Ayaka McGill)

Fans bid teary farewell to four giant pandas at a zoo in Japan before their return to China

Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee, speaks during a media tour at the Olympic and Paralympic Village for the Tokyo 2020 Games, constructed in the Harumi waterfront district of Tokyo, Sunday, June 20, 2021. (Akio Kon/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Veteran politician Seiko Hashimoto elected first female president of the Japanese Olympic Committee

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Trump sets 25% tariffs on imports from Japan and South Korea, AP Explains

President Donald Trump on Monday set a 25% tax on goods imported from Japan and South Korea, as well as new tariff rates on Malaysia, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Laos and Myanmar, all of which would go into effect on Aug. 1.

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Eight political leaders go head-to-head in debate ahead of Japan’s upper house election

Minority government of Japan PM faces tough test in upper house election; AP explains

Japan launches flagship H2A rocket for 50th and last time

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This image taken from video shows flight controllers at ispace Mission Control in Tokyo awaiting confirmation of their private lunar lander touching down on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025. (ispace via AP)

Private lunar lander from Japan crashes into moon in failed mission

People walk along a pedestrian crossing at a shopping street Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Annual births fall to another record low in Japan as its population emergency deepens

Japan's Emperor Naruhito, center right, accompanied by his wife, Empress Masako, center, and their daughter Princess Aiko, left, is greeted before their departure for Okinawa, at the Haneda airport in Tokyo, Wednesday, June 4, 2025.(Kyodo News via AP)

Japan’s emperor and his family pray in Okinawa for the victims of the island battle 80 years ago

Losing faith? how a rare version of Christianity is heading for extinction in rural Japan

Masatsugu Tanimoto, a farmer and one of the few remaining hidden Christians on Ikitsuki Island, hangs a scroll of the Virgin Mary and Jesus once secretly worshipped at his home in Ikitsuki Island in Hirado, southern Japan, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Takeaways from AP’s reporting on looming extinction of rare version of Christianity in rural Japan

Yoshitaka Oishi and others chant "Orasho" prayers during their annual performance at the Ikitsuki Island Museum "Shima no Yakata" in Ikitsuki Island in Hirado, southern Japan, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

‘A huge loss.’ In remote Nagasaki islands, a rare version of Christianity heads toward extinction

Brazil's Marta looks on during a women's friendly soccer match against Japan at Cicero de Souza Marques stadium in Braganca Paulista, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, Monday, June 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Marta back for Brazil after retirement and starts as captain in win over Japan

The art of crafting Japan’s most sacred shrine – in miniature

Trump tells US steelworkers he’s going to double tariffs on foreign steel from 25% to 50%

In this photo released by Japan Coast Guard, a Japan Coast Guard rescued a injured crew member from a Chinese survey ship operating in contested waters in southwestern Japan, shown far back, to transport him on a Japanese patrol boat, shown on the left, for treatment on the main Okinawa island. (Japan Coast Guard via AP)

Japan Coast Guard rescues injured crew from Chinese ship near contested waters

China will resume Japanese seafood imports it halted over Fukushima water discharge, AP explains

Japan's Princess Mako and her fiance Kei Komuro look at each other during a press conference at Akasaka East Residence in Tokyo, on Sept. 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, Pool, File)

Japan’s palace confirms former princess Mako has first baby

President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House to board Marine One, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Washington, as he heads to Pittsburgh for a rally. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The Latest: Trump says he will double steel tariffs to 50%

Japan says China will resume Japanese seafood imports it halted over Fukushima water discharge

President Donald Trump speaks at U.S. Steel Mon Valley Works-Irvin Plant, Friday, May 30, 2025, in West Mifflin, Pa. (AP Photo/David Dermer)

Trump tells US steelworkers he’s going to double tariffs on foreign steel to 50%

Japan’s Ishiba warns against tension over tariffs, vows to promote multilateral trade

Local workers arrange the inshore fish during a morning auction at Hisanohama Port, on Oct. 19, 2023 in Iwaki, northeastern Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool, File)

China set to resume imports of Japanese seafood halted over Fukushima water discharge

Brazil's Marta celebrates after scoring a goal during a women's soccer match against Netherlands at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Miyagi, Japan. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

Marta returns to Brazil’s national team for friendly matches against Japan

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a meeting at the Government Office in Hanoi, Vietnam, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang, Pool, file)

Japan’s Ishiba warns against tension over tariffs and vows to expand Asia-Pacific trade group

Pat Thiele connects a hose to a water tank as he fills a trough used by his cattle in the Bull Mountains, on May 21, 2025, near Roundup, Montana. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

Trump’s push to save coal faces a new hurdle: his own trade war

Onosato receives the trophy after winning in a sumo wrestling tournament at Ryogoku Kokugikan arena in Tokyo, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP)

Big surprise in sumo. The sport has a new champion — and he’s Japanese

A stray bobtail cat rests at a park in Nagasaki, southern Japan, on April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Cats with hooked and bent tails fill Nagasaki, Japan, where they are thought to bring good luck

In Japan, rare bobtail cats are considered good luck. Nagasaki is filled with them

US government to have control in Nippon Steel-U.S. Steel deal, Trump and Sen. McCormick say

Stephen Hayes Dacus, who was tapped to be the next chief executive of Seven & i Holdings, which operates the 7-Eleven convenience store chain, poses for a photo at the company's headquarters in Tokyo, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama, File)

Stephen Hayes Dacus becomes first foreign CEO of 7-Eleven in Japan

Reporters try out Nissan’s e-Power electrification technology on the current Qashqai model at the company’s Grandrive facility in Yokosuka, Japan, outside Tokyo, Monday, May 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)

Japan’s troubled automaker Nissan banks on hybrid EV technology

Memories from Nagasaki: “Remember the light you saw? Because of that there is nothing left”

Japan’s chief tariffs negotiator says no rush to reach agreement with US

Trump says US Steel will keep HQ in Pittsburgh in a sign he’ll approve bid by Japan-based Nippon

Japan PM hopes for productive tariff talks with the US following phone call with Trump