... the most hard-core Brexiters cannot articulate a deal that they prefer and has the slightest prospect of winning EU approval. Supporters of Brexit made incredible promises that had no basis in reality. / This matters greatly to Japan. Britain is the gateway to Europe for many Japanese companies. / Failure to reach a deal with the EU, for whatever reason, would be a disaster for the U.K.

The European Union and Japan will launch the world’s largest free trade zone early next year after their economic partnership cleared a final hurdle on Wednesday. Some 70 percent of European Parliament lawmakers backed the agreement that binds two economies accounting for about a third of global gross domestic product and signals their rejection of protectionism.

Japan's ambassador to Britain has said that Japanese businesses in the UK expect continued access to the European Union market after Brexit. Tsuruoka said Japanese firms based in Britain counted on access to the EU market.

Especially if you supported Leave. It's a brutal, lengthy, detailed dissection of all the potential economic damage leaving the EU will do to the UK.

Japan's government has warned that Brexit could result in the country's firms moving their European head offices out of Britain.

Japan recently released a rather extraordinary memo on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website. It provides clear, frank and specific recommendations to both the UK and the European Union (EU) on the topic of the impending separation of the UK from the EU.

Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has said Theresa May’s Brexit deal has his country’s “total support”, adding that the “whole world” wants to avoid the UK crashing out of the EU.

Norinchukin announces plan day after Shinzō Abe offered public backing for May’s deal.

Fresh inward investment in the sector plummeted in 2018, down 46.5 per cent on 2017 to just £588.6m.

The agreement reached after years of negotiations is forecast to boost trade by more than £30 billion a year.

Jonathan Vernon-Smith talks about manufacturing and brexit job losses with Jason J Hunter and Graham 'George' Gudgin.

Alarm raised after Nissan decision to halt expansion of Sunderland car plant.

Lack of clarity about UK-EU trading relationship after Brexit also holding up progress. / Japan is seeking tougher concessions from Britain in trade talks than it secured from the EU.

US, European, Japanese and Chinese patients could get novel medicines ahead of patients in the UK after Brexit, the CEO of French pharma Ipsen has said in an interview.

Trade talks will go ahead despite reported dismay at language used by Liam Fox and Jeremy Hunt.

The government has been accused of breaking its promises after it emerged that key trade deals would not be ready by Brexit day in a no-deal scenario.

The UK won't be able to roll over an EU trade deal with Japan in time for a no-deal Brexit, Trade Secretary Liam Fox has said.

‘Global Britain’ now apparently means making silly gestures and pretending to be more powerful than we are, at enormous cost to our economic well-being.

Business Secretary Greg Clark said the U.K. isn’t likely to reach agreements with Japan and South Korea to roll over existing trade deals before Britain’s scheduled departure from the European Union on March 29.