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Why Trump's 'Tariff Man' gambit could wreck Japan's 2025

Herculean effort by Ishiba and the BOJ needed to limit collateral damage

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William Pesek
January 5, 2025 05:05 JST
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Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda attends a press conference after its policy meeting in Tokyo, Japan. © Reuters

William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."

The whiplash Tokyo is feeling over Donald Trump's return to power is nothing compared to the ways his next trade war threatens to slam Japan's economy.

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