U.S.-Japan trade talks stall over car and rice tariffs

TOKYO >> Late last month, Japan’s chief U.S. trade negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, chatted with officials gathered at an embassy event in Tokyo. Japan’s top power company had pledged to buy up to 5.5 million tons of U.S. natural gas each year for two decades. That was a good start, Akazawa said, but could it perhaps double it?

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