Both the Biden Administration and former President Trump want to block the sale of U.S. Steel to a Japanese company, despite the fact that many workers argue that stopping the sale could cost them their jobs. NBC News' Gabe Gutierrez reports from Pittsburgh.
TOKYO — Lawmakers in Japan voted Monday to retain the embattled Shigeru Ishiba as prime minister despite his long-governing party’s dismal showing in parliamentary elections last month. Ishiba, 67, became prime minister of the key U.S. ally on Oct. 1 shortly after winning the leadership race for the Liberal Democratic Party , which has governed Japan almost uninterrupted since the end of World War II.
Trump’s threat of tariffs should be taken “very seriously,” Nakano said, considering Japan’s widening trade surplus with the U.S., its top export destination. They could have “devastating” consequences for a country already wrestling with rising costs and a “very low” currency, he said.
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