US and Indian officials met in New Delhi last week for what promises to be a tetchy summit. The trade relationship between their countries has never been easy. The fact that India has a $22-billion trade surplus with the US — despite running a deficit with many of its other major trading partners — is particularly annoying to the Trump ...

Stop seeing Japan as a wasteland. The country’s economy, the world’s third largest, still matters. Japan isn’t stuck in a hopeless demographic-driven hole without escape. Rather, the three decades since the Bubble burst have had their ups and downs. Look at the fourth-quarter gross domestic product numbers. They aren’t brilliant; they aren’t terrible. What makes them interesting is their ordinariness: ...

In Apple Inc.’s effort to become more than the iPhone company, it has become savvier about pitching people apps, started a digital music subscription, and created an app for reading news. Apple is still the iPhone company despite those tactics. But consumers don’t have to wait long to see the next steps in Apple’s attempted transformation. Among the company’s coming ...