{"id":487407,"date":"2026-02-24T09:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/487407\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:57:09","slug":"akazawa-says-japan-shouldnt-be-worse-off-under-new-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/487407\/","title":{"rendered":"Akazawa says Japan shouldn\u2019t be worse off under new tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan will abide by the terms of a trade agreement reached last year with the United States \u2014 including a $550 billion capital commitment \u2014 even after a court declared a class of tariffs central to the agreement illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Trade minister Ryosei Akazawa spoke with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick online for 40 minutes on Monday night and discussed the new tariffs imposed as the result of the court\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI reaffirmed with Commerce Secretary Lutnick that both Japan and the United States will continue to implement last year\u2019s agreement sincerely and expeditiously,\u201d Akazawa said Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan will abide by the terms of a trade agreement reached last year with the United States \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,12,28167,141899,3,759,2830,47515,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-487407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-japanese-economy","11":"tag-ldp","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tariffs","14":"tag-u-s","15":"tag-u-s-japan-relations","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}