Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and the head of Japan's largest labor union agreed on Monday to work together to raise wages in Japan to help mitigate the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff policies, in the first such talks in about 16 years.In a meeting with Tomoko Yoshino, the president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, Ishiba said he wants to "share the common awareness of the issue and overcome the challenge" with the organization "so that laborers at small- and medium-sized firms are spared excessive burdens."Yoshino, whose organization is better known as Rengo, aske…READ FULL ARTICLE
