TOKYO -- Japan and the U.S. intend to enact their recent trade agreement at the start of the year, the man who led Tokyo's negotiations told Nikkei in an interview Thursday.
"The U.S. wants [the trade deal] to be in effect on Jan. 1, 2020, and we have no objections to that," said Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, who assumed his current post in September after serving as economic policy minister.
