Japan is learning what life is life under a megaquake watch. NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Richard Allen, director of the Berkeley Seismology Lab, about what it means. It's been an unsettling few days in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about economics, markets and policymaking throughout Asia. Déjà vu abounds in Tokyo. Markets are celebrating a Japanese ...

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U.S. President Donald Trump and Sanae Takaichi, Japan's prime minister, during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, March 19, 2026. Sitting in the Oval ...