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President Donald Trump placed a 15% tax on goods imported from Japan. It's a heavy burden for the major U.S. ally, but shipments to the rest of Asia are helping to offset lost sales.

Honda lowered its profit projection for the fiscal year through March 2026 to $2 billion, which would be a decline of 64% from the year before.

An Ariya model with Wayve technology will be available in 2027.

August marks the fifth straight month of declines, as auto exports were hit by President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Japan’s top automaker, Toyota, announced a partnership with U.S. autonomous driving technology company Waymo on April 30.

TG Natural Resources, owned by Tokyo Gas, and Castleton Commodities International, is acquiring a 70% stake in the East Texas gas assets of Chevron U.S.A. for $525 million.

Momentum for driverless technology is building in Japan, which has not kept pace with the global shift to autonomous driving, so far led by China and the U.S. 

Japanese automakers Honda, Nissan and Mitsubishi said Feb. 13 they are ending talks on business integration.

TOKYO — Toyota is developing and making electric vehicles and EV batteries in China, the Japanese automaker said Feb. 5, under a new partnership with the Shanghai government.

TOKYO — Nippon Steel was standing firm on its proposed $15 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel, Chief Executive Eiji Hashimoto said after President Joe Biden blocked the steelmaker’s move.